Hello,

First of all let me write a couple of things:
* Thanks for developing Kdenlive it's, hands down, the most advanced open source video editor. Probably the only serious attempt in the open source field.
* I have very little experience using Kdenlive (yet).

I have just tried very few features of Kdenlive under Ubuntu/Mint and only for a brief period of time. This is because it has been a little unstable (I was particularly interested in proxy clips for HD editing). Also, reading the forums, the lack of stability seems a common problem. Currently Kdenlive is quite feature rich. That, however, is of little use if you cannot focus on your work and are concerned about what will be the next unexpected crash.

In order to improve the quality between releases and given that Sunab mantains an update PPA from repos it occured to me that an extensive list of features to be tested could be created. Then some users, as beta testers, should volunteer and assign themselves some of those tasks. When developers think it's a good time to release a new version should make a call to all testers (via e-mail). Those testers should download the latest version from Sunab ppa and test their assigned tasks. The results should be filled in a form and a page should display the results (untested, passed, error). This should be done 2 to 4 times before each realease (i.e.: beta1, beta2, rc1, rc2). A realase should not be done unless all tickets are tested (and passed).

This approach have the following advantatges:
* Leverages work from developers having to double as beta testers.
* Regressions are easily spoten.
* New features are tested.
* Paricular hardware is tested (hardware that developers may not even have such as video capture cards).
* It presents a well-defined point of entry to start contribuiting to Kdenlive.

What do you think? Is it possible? Do you think it would make a difference?