> > Thanks a lot for your offer, we would be of course very happy to welcome > new > contributors, would they be for a short time or longer term... > For me it's a pleasure and honour to contribute to free software movement and richness with students :)
> Regarding mentoring, I think I begin to have a rather precise idea of > where to > find any part of the code, even if I haven't been deep into how every > function > works... As I live in France, there is no time shift, voice calls are free, > but my Spanish is very very basic, can't count on that. > The main problem is that I'm very busy at work in July (finalizing a > telecom > circuit!), and in family holidays in August, but one week in Randa > (focused on > our topic). Answer to questions may take several days. > Don't worry, it will be just two or three indications in email format, and that can be in septembre or october, and just if the students need it. > I think it is more rewarding and motivating for newcomers to add small new > functionalities rather than understanding broken code. In our mantis > tracker > we have several ideas, for example: > #1347: mute all but selected track > #3298: duplicate Title Clip > #2513: Disable all effects in Timeline > and I have others in mind: > -properly handle constant quality encoding (tiny UI change) > -make transition/effects selector more visual (icons/animations) > -copy/paste between projects (I have a dirty beginning partly working) > I completely agree with your point of view regarding motivation. Indeed, I've not commented for now, but they are very interested in contributing with something related to UIs. > Once got in with little tasks like those (which can take some time for > beginner), it can be time to settle on more advanced work, "level 2", still > rather visible: > -re-enable movit (in GL monitor) > -re-enable ports to OSX, Windows (many changes since the last time it > worked) > -implement cross fades on a single track (a la shotcut) > -hunt easy bugs > -fix static analyzers warnings (I already made most of the work with > cppcheck, > scan-build and krazy) and look at valgrind messages > Great plan and roadmap. > If your student would prefer things more related to signal processing or > multimedia framework, then it might be better to look inside MLT, movit or > ffmpeg/libav. Things I would love (don't know what these projects have in > mind): > -enable hardware encoding (as we can now have most processing in GPU) > -call graphics filters from GMIC & other still image programs? > > Hope this motivates people ;-) > With all of these ideas and proposals, I have much more than enough for my meeting with students on next week, I hope they will keep hard with this and not only just for passing the "must" of the university. Thanks a lot to these list, developers, not ony for these messages, but also for your fantastic work ready for so much people all over the world ;)
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