Life

So I wasn’t quick enough to reply for the room to rent in the Barri Gottic 🙁 But I went to see the other place which is a little bit further (a good 20 minutes by foot from work, but which will be good for the exercise and the tan). This time I accepted the place way quicker 🙂

It’s really great, I’m sharing it with Cristina – the catalan girl who owns the place – and Rachid, a french guy who works at Hewlett-Packard in the suburbs… and Kika a lovely little cat 🙂 Well furnished, big bathroom (most important!), nice living-room, and all-in-all a very friendly ‘ambiance’. And yes, I am forcing myself to speak spanish with Cristina (who also speaks english and french), and I’m starting to feel the results.

PiTiVi

As you might have noticed, or not, I didn’t release the next version of PiTiVi. Why, you might ask ? 🙂 Well as I said before, I wanted to clean it up thoroughly so to make it easier to add new features, get rid of bugs, etc … But I’ve been spending all of this past week finding out how much of the codebase was.. well… totally and completely un-evolve-able !!! The reason for that is in fact quite simple : the rest of the team was only interested in getting something nice for the final presentation (which we mostly managed to do), and it seems I was the only one wanting to make pitivi a true application (usable by everyone, and especially that carries on living after the end of studies).

SO… since I would have to rewrite almost everything (GUI-wise) from scratch, I am going to.. in python 🙂 I’ve been wanting to do so from the start of the project, but for some reasons I won’t evoke here, we decided to do it in C/GObject. Doing it in python is going to allow faster development, ease the addition of new features, and concentrate on the ergonomy and added value of a non-linear editor (instead of banging my head on stupid C related problems). And it’s also time gnonlin goes back to it’s separate repository and it’s gst-plugin’able (which will definitely happen shortly). So for those not getting the message : the cpu-intensive parts of pitivi (GStreamer and gnonlin) are staying in C !

I’ll be reviewing all of those ideas (and all the feedback I got on pitivi) at the beginning of this week with the rest of the fluendo team… stay tuned !