[kdenlive] Development info

[Mario Fux]

Am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2014, 11.52:20 schrieb jb:
> Hi,

Morning jb

> It seems a bit hard to organize an IRC meeting these days with all the
> year's end's events, so I propose to postpone it to January 2015.

I might help there if you want to delegate ;-).

> In the meantime I did sum up the current state & plans for Kdenlive for the
> next months on KDE's wiki:
> https://community.kde.org/Kdenlive/Development/KF5

Still need to read it although I'm not a developer.

> Basically, the Qt5/KF5 port is now done, and my plan is to work on the
> Kdenlive / MLT interactions by borrowing some ideas/code from Shotcut -
> Dan's work is always a great source of inspiration :). This should allow
> us get rid of some unnecessarily complicated code (that is left from the
> time where Kdenlive communicated with MLT only through xml playlists), and
> is a good opportunity to do some cleanup and reorganization.
> 
> I planned a 3 step refactoring, which should hopefully allow for a smooth
> transition and be manageable within a reasonable timeframe. I started work
> on the first step and will try to blog about the process. If any of the
> other developers have ideas or comments about this plan or other things,
> you are welcome.
> 
> And for those who are wondering, I stopped working on Kdenlive for 1.5 year
> partly because of health issues but I have now fully recovered and the
> feedback from the community (thanks for the KDE award) and from Vincent
> greatly helped me to get back to Kdenlive!

Great to hear that and welcome back!

Happy holidays to everybody
Mario