Re: [Kdenlive-devel] Proposal for contribution from university

[Dani G. P. <jda...@gm...>]

>
> 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 ;)