Hi,

I want to set a new bounty: I am pretty happy with the features kdenlive currently implements, but it crashes badly too much.

I'd like to see a "feature freeze" and a stable release (0.6?).

For this, I am willing to pay US$ 300.

I don't really know how the bounties work, so somebody have to explain me better where to put the money for the bounty.

BTW: my company OS3 (Open Source Software Solutions), at this address: http://www.os3.it could even consider "sponsoring" the development of the project.

Please, email me privately. Thank you!

Keep up the good work!

Hey Fsoft,

Great idea, and thanks for putting your money where your mouth is :D. A couple of questions:

1. How are you defining "more" stable exactly? 1 less crash bug? 5 more? No more crashes ever? Community vote? Pick a bunch of specific bugs you want fixed from the bug tracker?

2. Would you include bugs that stop the use of current features but don't make all of Kdenlive go down in this? For example for me currently the DVD rendering part doesn't work and just gives an error message, however I'm able to return to Kdenlive and work on other things without it ever "crashing" (IE the KDE crash report/backtrace window replacing Kdenlive). Are these kinds of bugs included in your bounty?

I'd be interested in supporting the kind of bugs I mentioned in point 2 as I hope to use Kdenlive quite extensively this year in our business and, like you, the features are all there now, but just getting them all to work is the only thing holding us back from committing fully.

Hi cinephiliac,

I'd like to see kdenlive more stable in general, so it does not crashes while working with it.

At the moment, the main crashes are related to manually drag back / forth the cursor on the timeline to test a transition effect.

It crashes so badly I am now used to save my project every 5 / 10 minutes.

It would be great to work without this kind of pain :-)

I could have a look at the bug tracker, but I don't think I can tell which kind of bug is more guilty of my crashes :-)

Ciao,

Fabio

>It crashes so badly I am now used to save my project every 5 / 10 minutes.

This has been my experience with almost any video editor I've used. It's not something that I like, but it seems to be somewhat just the way working with video seems to go. There is an "Autosave project every ___ minutes" in the KDEnlive configuration dialog, however, which may help you...