If you’re going to make any sort of guide, my recommendation is to put it in the wiki/how-to and link it here.
That way, people can reference it as it’s own thread, rather than going to reply number 146 of a thread.
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I agree on the wiki. If nothing else it can be used for future reference if it’s in the wiki section
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Coming up to the end of the month. Can we decide about which projects to cover. Kdenlive is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, how about doing kdenlive and dx that way we can get people in who are gamers and content creators.
I’m going to go for kdenlive I will post up the log and debug information soon.
Also should I suggest creating a thread for the project. Any thoughts?
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I’ll help.
Let’s make a new thread for May (we’ll call it May, but we can start early)
In regards to two projects, I’d say let’s focus on one since this is the first month we’re doing this. We’ll basically leave Kdenlive off the list next month and that will let others win next time around. After a couple months, if we feel the project needs more help, we can add it back.
Also, for those who have voted for non-winning projects, feel free to contribute to that project if you want. This project here is designed to get people in the community to give back to the software they use every day. If you’d like to help your favorite software get better, do it!
@blackfire, let’s make the cutoff Today. We can make a thread and fill it with contributor guidelines and information.
I’m also going to create a new post here an turn it into a wiki for next month’s contestants. I’ll make a list of past winners in the OP as well, so we have an easy to find list.
Contenders for June Effort
- DXVK - DX11 to Vulkan Translation layer for Wine
This post is a wiki. Anyone can edit and changes are audited.
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I wish that there was some payroll or tax software we could attack and do bug reports for.
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I mean, I know of GnuCash as a tool for finance, but I’m not sure about tax prep and payroll.
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The thing S76 mas apparently the best thing on the market for a long time but they stopped making it…
I wonder if we could get the code for it…
Can’t hurt to ask.
I’ve created a repo for Kdenlive 18.04 and MLT 6.6.0 for Fedora. I’m going to maintain this one as long as Fedora fails to keep up to date on the latest version.
This came from a need to have the latest MLT version, so I’ll be keeping this one up.
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Their documentation only explains how to do it on Ubuntu. Pretty shitty imo. Still trying to get all the fucking dependencies.
Maybe if I figure it out I’ll go through my bash_history and make a PR to README.md 
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Don’t try. Take an existing package spec and modify it.
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Hey so apparently the code for beansbooks is available but we can’t fork it.
https://beansbooks.com/opencode
Dunno if anyone else was interested in that or if it was just me.
I don’t see where it says we can’t fork it.
https://phabricator.kde.org/project/profile/40/
https://notes.kde.org/public/kdenlive-cafe26
https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Tutorials
https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kdenlive/Troubleshooting
https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfieldfrom=24h
they are doing a big code change next month, they are almost at the end of a build cycle so really we should be targeting the dev channel to actually find relevant bugs.
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Yeah we can’t do that unless we buy it outright. I wasn’t aware it was its under its own license.
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Ah, that’s a pain in the ass. 
Given that, should we put Kdenlive on hold until later? As much as I am eager to help out, they have been refactoring it to allow for better usability and less bugs, I’m not sure our work would be best used on that front.
One way or another, here’s a quick ‘n’ dirty guide for building kdenlive from source: Building Kdenlive from Source!
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They are almost finished with bug fixes so I think it would be a good time to start really. They can’t fix what they don’t know is broken before release.
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