Category: Planet GNOME
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Pitivi 0.93 released
Last week, a flash snowstorm brought me around 2ft of snow overnight. I thought, “If I’m going to clear that much snow, might as well have some fun and make a timelapse out of it”, and so I did. While watching it, I realized, “Hmm… that’s an interesting metaphor for the huge amount of preparatory…
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Pitivi status update for Q1 2014, fundraiser launch
Since my previous technical update in January, I haven’t had time to touch Pitivi’s code. Thankfully though, Alexandru Băluț has been filling the gap with a ton of refactoring work: around 150 commits! That took a fair amount of time to review and merge, believe me. Besides code cleanup, he also finished the port of the…
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Applying for a GSoC project is all about early involvement and commitment
This year, Pitivi‘s focus for GSoC projects will be a little bit different than in 2013. As you can see in our preliminary GSoC ideas page on the wiki, there is much less GStreamer (or GES) work involved, as we tried to focus on Pitivi UI work — easier, concrete projects, mostly only in Python.…
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Presenting and hacking Pitivi at Pycon 2014
Pycon, or what I’d call the “main Pycon” (vs one of the sub-Pycons), has traditionally always been held in the United States of America. This year, it will be held in Montréal. The most astute among you might have noticed that Montréal (Québec) is not actually in the USA (because trying to capture Québec City…
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Moving planets around
A minor security problem on the Pitivi website (a script kiddie covertly filling a cache folder with pharma SEO spam) lured me into the following adventure, when MagpieRSS was suspected of having been used as the attack vector: “Oh gosh, MagpieRSS is really dead…” “Why not try SimplePie instead? It’s slightly less dead and widely…
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Praise for the Personal Desktop Computer
On my personal homepage, I maintain a timeline of personal computers I’ve owned or closely maintained. The ones I’ve been using as my personal workhorses are the ones in green:Looking back, I have to say I’m pretty appreciative of desktop computers, which represent the upper half of the timeline. They earn a lot of respect…
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Scratching some Media Library itches
Besides catching a cold and shovelling snow, this holiday season I spent some time scratching itches in Pitivi. For starters, thumbnails generation: if you’ve been using the new Pitivi, you certainly ran into this: As you can see, thumbnails were not necessarily being shown for all clips. That was not the result of a buggy…
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The Death of Instant Messaging in 2013
We kinda failed at freeing/opening up telecommunications for the the public, though it wasn’t really our fault. Back in the nineties, ICQ and AIM were the significant players with a “first mover” advantage in the instant messaging market. MSN/Messenger/Live eventually ate their lunch, as users were looking for something less invasive and bloated for simple…
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Wanted: documentation specialist
The Pitivi project is looking for someone who loves teaching/writing, to fill the position of “documentation specialist” among our team! The documentation specialist will be responsible for updating our fantastic user manual (online version here) based on release notes of 0.91 and 0.92 as well as your own imagination/ideas for improvement. The user manual is…
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Pitivi 0.92 and the wandering opensourcerer
The past few weeks have been pretty crazy. At the last minute, I ended up going to the GStreamer Conference in Edinburgh, thanks to the GStreamer project sponsoring my attendance. As always, it was a fantastic event and it was great to meet up with old friends and see great topics being discussed. I was pretty…