Hello Kdenlive fans, I found JBM's phone number and decided to call yesterday evening. Good surprise: I talked to him! Topmost important, he is now fine.
Here is my understanding of the situation; he may detail himself later on... He indeed had a forced break this summer. After this period off, he was a bit out of motivation, one reason beeing the refactoring appearing too huge a task. We agree that Till's redesign is very elegant and powerfull, but there are so many things to redo almost from scratch just to get the "old" functionalities... The "abrupt" switch was not the good way, we should actually plan a smoother transition, and plan a task *sharing*. This point matters: it proved again that a project relying on a single developer is very fragile (I note that for years he got help for bugfix & fine tunings, but few new functionalities). My conclusion is that we should stop holding our breath. We wouldn't interfere and he would actually appreciate if people take responsibilities. The plans I see: 1) put master back in good shape, restoring v0.9.6+, and moving back refactoring effort into its branch. who: Jean-Noël, Laurent, Vincent (me) when: ~2 weeks 2) apply to this master all the quality tools (coverity, cppcheck & all), and sort out the fixable bug report from mantis. who: Mikko, Vincent, Granjow?, EdRog? when: ~2 month 3) communicate on website, terminate the forums move. What about pushing integration on KDE infra? (tracker, web...) who: volunteers for com (news, doc, tuto, forums)? +technical help from KDE fellows when: when new stuff available ;-) 4) integrate new features: GPU powered monitor & effects, webvfx titler/synfig bridge, Qt5 port, whatever motivates you to code ;-) who: JBM? Granjow? Newcomers? when: 2014 to 2050 ;-) 5) progressively integrate new design, for example moving first the effect stack, then the project manager, then the timeline (random sorting, I haven't studied the topic). The mix during the transition might be ugly, but I think it is better to keep all the functionality all along the process? who: Till (payd for another "summer of code")?, JBM? (Vincent?) when: 2014 summer to 2015 (I put the names I noticed just as suggestion, of course everyone is free) If we manage to gather a small active team, it might be good to meet sometimes, by IRC, phone/video, and even aKademy? Don't hesistate to comment, complete or destroy these plans! Wish you all the best, Vincent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list Kdenlive-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
