[Kdenlive-devel] Introduction - Doran Barton

[Dan Dennedy]

Great. First off, decide whether you want to help more on the UI  
(kdenlive) or the backend (mlt). The frontend is all C++/KDE/Qt. The  
backend is all C99 with a minimal C++ wrapper. You can briefly review  
code to get a feeling for what things are implemented in which files  
and the coding styles. Maybe a good way to start is locating bugs or  
locating why something isn't working the way you expect. You will  
have to submit at least a couple of legitimate patches before getting  
commit access to the repository. Alternatively, a newer model of open  
source development is to make a "git" tree based on the repository  
and then publish your git tree to the mailing list. Then, people can  
test it and developers choose to merge things into the repository.

On Aug 16, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Doran L. Barton wrote:

> I am very interested in becoming more involved in this project.  
> I've been
> using Ulead MediaStudio Pro for Windows now for several years and  
> over the
> last 6 years or so, it has become the sole reason I boot into Windows.
>
> I've been searching for some software to allow me to do my video  
> editing
> within my Linux desktop environment of choice (KDE) with no  
> avail... until
> now. kdenlive is the closest thing I've found to allowing me to do  
> what I
> want to do.
>
> That being said, it's only about 20% of the function I need. I  
> would be
> very interested in contributing both ideas and actual code (I am a
> programmer) to this project to help kdenlive progress toward more
> usability.
>