Planet GNOME

On Planet Ubuntu today, I’ve seen an interesting take on the Novacut project. You don’t often get to see someone have the guts to stand up and say these things.

Today, I merged a truly amazing feature that Benjamin M. Schwartz has been working on in the past few weeks in PiTiVi: alignment of clips based on waveform analysis. From commit aa68410…’s description:

In case you have been living under a rock and have not seen my talk at LGM this year, you have probably missed this important piece of information:

The pitivi project will be having a hackfest at the Desktop Summit this year. Planning details should appear on this page (the exact time and location are still to be determined).

It just occured to me that since I’m on Planet GNOME, I can shamelessly bribe people into fixing bugs in exchange for beer and cheese and whatnot. Wanna get drunk at the Desktop Summit this year? Then please fix these trivial-yet-infuriating usability issues that have been preventing me from using Evolution‘s calendar for years:

During the past week, I (along with Alex Băluț) obtained commit access to the main PiTiVi branch.

This is a very good thing. Two more community members being able to merge contributions means that:

I’ve been holding off a Specto release for way too long. See my previous post on the matter for some insights into why Specto 0.4 was released after Duke Nukem Forever.

This is a late flashback of what happened last month when I attended Libre Graphics Meeting. Yes, that was weeks ago (procrastination, work and pitivi ate all my time) so I’ll keep this short.

Since Thibault has not been re-added to Planet GNOME yet and we’re in a bit of a hurry (deadline is Tuesday), let me “retweet” a slightly edited version of his announcement: