As many customers have observed, our 23.04.0 launch didn’t go as easily as deliberate. A number of main regressions affected the discharge, leading to a poor person expertise. We’re properly conscious that almost all customers need stability above all else, and with our rising person base we actually want to enhance on that entrance.
So for Kdenlive 23.08, we plan to focus solely on bug reporting and regression testing to keep away from repeating the errors of the 23.04 launch. Our intention is to enhance our take a look at suite, and likewise to create a repository of pattern undertaking information, with automated scripts that open the information, render them, and examine the outcomes to a reference render.
This could enable us to catch regressions and be a lot safer when releasing a brand new model with main adjustments, as was the case with nested timelines in 23.04.0.
It’s additionally vital to understand that Kdenlive depends on dozens of different initiatives and libraries, and that a number of the latest issues had been attributable to upstream or downstream points, so don’t blame us for every thing :).
Concerning our fundraising
Right here is the primary report on what we’re doing with the cash and what’s deliberate for the long run.
We’re very proud of the success of the marketing campaign and can attempt to report each 4 months on what we’ve achieved with the cash raised. At first, not every thing went as deliberate. The reorganisation of the Kdenlive maintainer ‘s schedule to have extra time for Kdenlive isn’t going as quick as hoped, so he’s nonetheless in a transition interval. This can change by the top of the 12 months, with the purpose of getting a more healthy weekly schedule with two full days devoted to Kdenlive as a substitute of the present someday plus all accessible spare time.
The figures
As of mid-February 2023, we had obtained 677 donations totalling: €23,170.
Platform and processing charges had been €1,067 €, and €4,420 € (20 %) will go to KDE to cowl infrastructure, upkeep and assist prices. This leaves €17,683 € for Kdenlive growth.
€3000 has already been used to assist fund the primary achievement (see beneath).
The primary achievements
Thanks to those donations, the Kdenlive maintainer began to work a bit extra on Kdenlive and we delivered the primary purpose of the fundraiser: assist for nested timelines!
Subsequent steps
When our testing has improved, we’ll begin engaged on bettering the results workflow and growing the worldwide efficiency of the appliance.
Be part of us
Kdenlive is an open supply undertaking, you’ll be able to assist us in some ways. You’ll be able to be part of our Matrix growth channel, assist with documentation or ship us your (hopefully) success tales with Kdenlive!
