Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing 138
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."
Still involved on September 16 (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:This is why (Score:5, Interesting)
NSA was June, a lot of people dropped off the net (Score:5, Interesting)
A lot of people dropped off the Net in July, well at least they stopped posting and doing stuff until they can secure their email, and communications.
Re:Reasons - He probably had a kid (Score:5, Interesting)
/Adoption can be amusing...
Re:This is why (Score:4, Interesting)
The filter for OSS is lack of interest. When no one is interested in the capabilities, it is abandoned.
The filter for closed is lack of sustained monetization, whether the software is still useful to users or not is irrelevant. Many times older versions with fewer use restrictions end up being 'good enough', and kill off the 'business model' the developer wants to use/change to, so the whole program is abandoned. SaaS is a perfect example of this progression. Today's feature is tomorrow's monetization killer and is removed. What the user actually wants becomes more and more irrelevant as it finds its way to bottom denominator hell.
Re:Plenty of OSS are abandoned today (Score:5, Interesting)
Yes, the difference between Open Source and closed source is that often the Open Source project gets visible before it gets finished, therefore you see the projects that failed early on. OTOH closed source is usually not released before the developer considers it ready for use, therefore you'll never get to see most failed close source projects.
Re:Plenty of OSS are abandoned today (Score:3, Interesting)