As a casual user (and not a developer) I don't personally have any beef
with neither factions (yes, because, unfortunately of factions we are
talking about here). However, as a user, I am intimidated by all this,
mostly now that is getting personal. I am very uneasy with this.
For anybody that may care, some history. I barely used Cinelerra, mainly
because of my lack of substantial projects for it. I settled with the CV
version because - don't laugh - it was the only version I could manage
to compile successfully and quickly, without investing a day for it. I
strongly believed that in 2010 to have to compile a program from scratch
to use it sounded to me prehistoric, anachronistic and a horrible waste
of time (for the casual user anyway). Besides for both CV and HW
versions, compilation has been terrible for new Linux users. A complain
is always easy to throw out, so I set myself to help in what I know how
to do. So, just as I do for other scientific software, I created the
Cinelerra Ubuntu PPA where people can seamlessly install it in seconds.
I hope it served some purpose and helped a few souls. I wanted to
created a PPA for HW, but time prevented me to dive in. Besides, I had
no needs.
Now, I have better things in life waiting for me, with much more
cohesive and exciting communities to be in. I am not going to pretend
that I am relevant or needed (or worst, that I own anything). I simply
am not and I don't. So as of today, I will no longer maintain the PPA, I
won't even look at bug reports and respond to emails. Current binaries
will remain available, but no ports to new releases of Ubuntu will be
made. I could transfer to anybody interested the administration rights
(including Mr. Collins), but I don't want the PPA to be another
battleground for war. So if someone wants to make a new PPA from
scratch, please proceed, it's easy enough being open source.
With that, good luck on your endeavor, being cinelerra-cv, cinelerra
hw-non-cv or anything in between.
Best Wishes to All.
Nicola Ferralis
P.S. I'd only ask - you know who you are - not to spam me with requests
of linkedin connections. I won't grant any, because I value actual
personal relationships more than a high count on my connections. You
won't gain much of anything of having me on your linkedin connections as
I have no expertize in arts, video editing, Hollywood, etc.
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