Ok great that JBM is fine. Plan is ok for me. We need a date for '1)' We can put master to 0.9.6+ the 16 december. After that it's christmas hollidays.
Regards Le jeudi 5 décembre 2013 12:28:03 Vincent PINON a écrit : > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
