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 ?crit : > 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 -- Laurent Montel | laurent.montel at kdab.com | KDE/Qt Senior Software Engineer KDAB (France) S.A.S., a KDAB Group company Tel. France +33 (0)4 90 84 08 53, Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090
