[Kdenlive-devel] Breaking news

[laurent Montel]

Ok great that JBM is fine.

Plan is ok for me.
We need a date for '1)'
We can put master to 0.9.6+ the 16 december.
After that it's christmas hollidays.

Regards


Le jeudi 5 décembre 2013 12:28:03 Vincent PINON a écrit :
> Hello Kdenlive fans,
> 
> I found JBM's phone number and decided to call yesterday evening.
> Good surprise: I talked to him!
> Topmost important, he is now fine.
> 
> Here is my understanding of the situation; he may detail himself later on...
> 
> He indeed had a forced break this summer.
> After this period off, he was a bit out of motivation, one reason beeing
> the refactoring appearing too huge a task.
> We agree that Till's redesign is very elegant and powerfull, but there
> are so many things to redo almost from scratch just to get the "old"
> functionalities...
> The "abrupt" switch was not the good way, we should actually plan a
> smoother transition, and plan a task *sharing*.
> 
> This point matters: it proved again that a project relying on a single
> developer is very fragile (I note that for years he got help for bugfix
> & fine tunings, but few new functionalities).
> 
> My conclusion is that we should stop holding our breath. We wouldn't
> interfere and he would actually appreciate if people take responsibilities.
> The plans I see:
> 1) put master back in good shape, restoring v0.9.6+, and moving back
> refactoring effort into its branch.
> who: Jean-Noël, Laurent, Vincent (me)
> when: ~2 weeks
> 2) apply to this master all the quality tools (coverity, cppcheck &
> all), and sort out the fixable bug report from mantis.
> who: Mikko, Vincent, Granjow?, EdRog?
> when: ~2 month
> 3) communicate on website, terminate the forums move. What about pushing
> integration on KDE infra? (tracker, web...)
> who: volunteers for com (news, doc, tuto, forums)? +technical help from
> KDE fellows
> when: when new stuff available ;-)
> 4) integrate new features: GPU powered monitor & effects, webvfx
> titler/synfig bridge, Qt5 port, whatever motivates you to code ;-)
> who: JBM? Granjow? Newcomers?
> when: 2014 to 2050 ;-)
> 5) progressively integrate new design, for example moving first the
> effect stack, then the project manager, then the timeline (random
> sorting, I haven't studied the topic). The mix during the transition
> might be ugly, but I think it is better to keep all the functionality
> all along the process?
> who: Till (payd for another "summer of code")?, JBM? (Vincent?)
> when: 2014 summer to 2015
> 
> (I put the names I noticed just as suggestion, of course everyone is free)
> 
> If we manage to gather a small active team, it might be good to meet
> sometimes, by IRC, phone/video, and even aKademy?
> 
> Don't hesistate to comment, complete or destroy these plans!
> 
> Wish you all the best,
> 
> Vincent.
> 
> 
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