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

[Evert Vorster]

I have to admit that I am also a little sad to see no commits to the
git for the last six months.

There are some bugs in the last stable release that could do with
fixing while we wait for J-B-M to re-appear.

While I am not a coder, it would be a terrible waste to let such a
good project die, and I will help with quality testing and bug
reports.

Unfortunately the git repo is not useful now, and kdenlive built from
it can't edit video.

-Evert-

On 25 November 2013 00:16, laurent Montel <montel at kde.org> wrote:
> 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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