<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Kunda Loves Scribus wrote:<br>
<br>
> Truly, there are some inspiring examples so far where a project with<br>
> organized structure and a well-planned roadmap have been pretty victorious<br>
> with their fundraising efforts. I'm thinking of Synfig specifically. Pitivi<br>
> and Mediagoblin (2 crowdfundings already) have had pretty successful runs<br>
> but I'm not sure how they've been evolving since.<br>
<br>
</div>Synfig is in the "it's complicated" department. Every time they run a<br>
campaign, it's a close call for failure: half the time they are mere<br>
hours away from either failing or succeeding. They do deliver on their<br>
promises, but due to having to pick a feature request to focus on for<br>
the next month of sponsored development they have a problem of<br>
wrapping up and actually releasing all the awesome new features they<br>
have implemented (sounds familiar, eh?). In fact, they made a summer<br>
break for July and August, so that might help.<br>
<br>
Mediagoblin had two campaigns: the one in late 2012 was underfunded by<br>
ca. 25%, the one in 2014 was overfunded by 5%. The first time things<br>
balanced out, because they got more people involved through other<br>
programs. I'm not sure how much progress they've had since April 2014,<br>
when they last posted in the blog, I think someone could ping Chris<br>
about that :)<br>
<br>
Pitivi is still in the process of being funded. Last time I checked (a<br>
month ago) they were half way there or so. They made some rather<br>
important changes anyway, but they rarely report on the progress<br>
which, IMO, is one of the reasons of the slow progress with the<br>
funding (IMO, Synfig, being a bit of a niche product, only manages to<br>
raise funds every time, because they post weekly updates with videos<br>
and release dev builds. Pitivi guys do not provide this kind of<br>
progress visibility, although they do provide static nightly builds)<br>
<br>
Not sure how much useful that info is :) Frankly, I don't exactly<br>
understand what's up with Scribus development. Cezary used to be<br>
hyperactive :), but now he's gone? Alessandro and Klaudia used to work<br>
on usability, no idea what happened to that project: the properties<br>
palette is still a huge mess. A_l_e seems to be working on the epub<br>
exporter which is important for single-sourcing though.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net</a> mentions "Latest release: Devel 1.5.0" which<br>
leads to an empty folder on SourceForge. That's confusing.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.0_(%3D_1.6.0_Alpha_1)_Roadmap" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/1.5.0_(%3D_1.6.0_Alpha_1)_Roadmap</a> lists<br>
pending features that don't look critical at all while delaying<br>
delivery of the release.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_1.5.0_Release_Schedule" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_1.5.0_Release_Schedule</a> mentions<br>
a bunch of features that are due to be extensively tested, but how<br>
that could be done without widely accessible binary builds I have no<br>
foggiest idea.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Alex<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your perspective and input, Alex. </div><div>All your points are noted. </div><div>There is more complexity than I imagined. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div>
<div>/Kunda</div></div></div></div>