[Kdenlive-devel] Let's make KDEnlive lives again together

[laurent Montel]

Hi Jean-Nicolas,

I am totally ok with your plan.

I will help you to improve it.

We must restart this project.


Regards

Le dimanche 24 novembre 2013 20:22:23 Jean-Nicolas Artaud a écrit :
> Hello KDEnlive people,
> 
> I'm new to the list, my name is Jean-Nicolas Artaud, but you may know me as
> morice-net on IRC. I've already contributed on calligra, especialy stage
> (even if I began with KOffice and KPresenter). I'm engineer in software
> development (C++/Qt) and I contribute on my free time only, trying my best
> 
>  :-) I also have an organisation background with some events I manage in
> 
> Toulouse, France.
> 
> What makes me come to you ? Plenty of KDEnlive fans and users are sad that
> their favourite open software doesn't have any evolution for a while.
> Technicaly speaking the master is in a broken state. Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
> has begun a big refactoring, and we can see no push on the master since the
> 4th of June. In two weeks, it will have long 6 months without a commit, and
> the state of the master is "broken".
> 
> What I would like to do ? I can see that the community is present, both in
> an user and a developer PoV. I just would like to set the master in a good
> state, so that people can contribute again, and help me in fixing bugs and
> adding missing features and making this software lives again. That would be
> awesome. To realise this, I am wondering if you guys would be okay in the
> plan I'm discribing on the next paragraph.
> 
> The commit that breaks the master is the merge from "refactoring" branch.
> The previous one is
> commit restart plan:
> commit 28a2b7fa96cab650b3d8c0747962439f87b6ec32
> Author: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb at kdenlive.org>
> Date:   Wed Jun 5 12:43:04 2013 +0200
> 
>     Small cleanup and fix crash when switching to SDL display
> 
> To reset the master in a good state, I guess it's a good start. By the way,
> the refactoring work cannot be lost. It's something that needs info so why
> not just putting it in a branch waiting the return of king Jean-Baptiste.
> 
> So what do you think of that ? Am I wrong in some points ? Do you agree
> with me.
> 
> I wouldn't like KDEnlive to stop involve, so I guess we'll make this change
> in something like 2 or 3 weeks. I would appreciate some returns of you to
> sure that it is the good way to do !
> 
> Thanks for reading

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