[UIFe] Replace Pitivi with OpenShot

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Pitivi does not seem to work in 14.10. The attachment shows the output from my attempt to start it from a terminal window, and judging from the latest comment at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/727851 there is zero interest upstream to keep maintaining Pitivi.

In the linked MP I propose that OpenShot is highlighted in the Ubuntu slideshow instead of Pitivi. The MP does not include a change of the Ubuntu GNOME slideshow, since I suppose it should be decided by the dedicated team.

As regards the freeze exception, the change would not affect the Ubuntu Desktop Guide, and I will alert the translators about the new string if it gets approved.

The proposal may have policy implications, so I have also started a thread at the ubuntu-desktop mailing list:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-October/004555.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

While I don't see indications that upstream wouldn't be maintaining and developing pitivi, which seems like a wrong claim, Ubuntu 14.10 does have currently the bug #1377804 that prevents pitivi from starting.

On the 14.04 LTS the pitivi bug #1307746 that affects some of the users seems resolvable. Hopefully the 14.10 problem could also be fixed, but it is different and maybe related to the latest Python or GStreamer changes in 14.10. Meanwhile openshot on 14.10 at least starts up, although requires libav/ffmpeg.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

> I don't see indications that upstream wouldn't be maintaining and developing
> pitivi, which seems like a wrong claim

It IS a wrong claim. And I don’t even understand why this is High importance.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Pitivi, "unmaintained"? Seriously?
How about looking at the news on the frontpage of http://pitivi.org first?

Then if you want to easily compare levels of activity between Pitivi and OpenShot in a quantified way (insert usual warning here about statistics, etc.), see the "12 Month Statistics" section of https://www.openhub.net/p/compare?project_0=Pitivi&project_1=OpenShot+Video+Editor

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Indeed. 0.93 is a bit borked in Ubuntu, but I'm uploading some fixes for the immediate problems.

I'd definitely welcome a 0.94 release though. :)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I was obviously very wrong about the upstream maintenance, and I stand corrected.

Adolfo: As regards the importance of this proposal: The current utopic version of Pitivi crashes at launch, and if that is not fixed, I consider it very important that the installer slideshow does not state Pitivi as "supported software".

OTOH, Iain Lane seems to be about to fix it:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2014-October/004559.html

If he does, this request is not important at all. In that case I'll simply close the bug.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

0.94 is indeed coming "soonish", we just need the time to test/merge last minute fixes/etc. Can't commit to an exact date, but that release should hopefully solve issues that occurred due to changes in underlying platforms (gstpython, clutter, gst, etc.) in the past few months.