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Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing

Posted by timothy on from the hope-all-is-well dept.

jones_supa writes "Kdenlive's project leader Jean-Baptiste Mardelle, who always used to let people know if he was going to be away for a couple of days, seems to have just disappeared. His last e-mail and blog post were in early July and they didn't suggest any problems. While there's many Kdenlive fans out there for the KDE-focused open-source video editor, it seems new development efforts around the project have ceased. Also the Kdenlive Git repository hasn't seen any new commits (aside from the automated l10n daemon script) since early July. There has been also people in KDE forums and Kdenlive developers' mailing list pondering about the status of the project, being left none the wiser."

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  1. Re:This is why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Open source software sucks

    Quite the opposite. Since it's open source, it can be forked and can continue development. With close sourced software, once development halts, for whatever reason, nobody else can work on it.

    So this is actually an example why Open Source software rocks.

  2. Re:This is why by QuasiSteve · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Which is different from closed source software, how?

    Take SpaceMonger, for example. There one day, gone the next. Guy's still around, personal blog notes the disappearance, and essentially told people to just not ask. Well alright, then.

    I do agree that when an open source software project goes stagnant because one or more active developers quit, it's rather indicative of the fact that just because the source is available that there is no guarantee whatsoever that somebody else will pick it up. But at least they can.

  3. GEEZ. Let's all just engage in rank speculation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It took me two minutes to get an address and telephone number for the guy. Maybe it's current, maybe it's not. But instead of just pointlessly speculating, maybe somebody who personally knows him from KDE events should give him a call and see how he's doing. On a side note, I can't believe this is on /. Phoronix? Yes, because its a worthless gossip rag. It's getting really old with /. taking crap articles from Phoronix and putting them on the front page.

    1. Re:GEEZ. Let's all just engage in rank speculation by rmdingler · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is the loathesome pretentious side of /. This story, with (x)+/- readers and comments -not statistically insignificantly including you and yours- , has piqued my own good interest enough to comment a second time. That a single grandiloquent pos(t)er would not only attempt to modwhore a perceived populist highbrow view of article selection, but gain the three positive mods despite his rather less than opaque pandering, well as you can tell, leaves me speechless. It's called the "F_rehose" and may I buy you a vowel?

      --
      Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

      Ernest Hemingway

  4. Re:Still involved on September 16 by DexterIsADog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's the precise reasoning - you cannot make an observation containing the slightest criticism of something unless you yourself participate in that activity.

    That's why aficionados of basketball who don't play in the NBA scrupulously avoid any implicit criticism of players, coaches, officials, or owners when they discuss the sport.