The Lumiera-project is thinking new

The Lumiera-project is thinking new

Lumiera, the successor (in a few years, if more developers hop on board) of Cinelerra-CV, wants to be distributed. You should be able to clone the repository, and not only get the code - but also the website, all documentation and the bugs. The whole essential project inside Git.

For this to work, two extra projects have been created. First, a web interface, webgit (not released yet AFAIK), to Git, where users can edit files in Git just by using their browser. This will make small corrections and contributions really easy (and also documentation). It is mainly centered around code, but since everything about the project is supposed to be in Git - it will be easy for everyone to help a bit with what they know best.

The other is a wiki currently backed by Git and using asciidoc-files (but markup and backend are pluginable), uWiki is announced on freshmeat. The homepage will also be written using uWiki, so that it can easily be tracked using Git.

Lastly, the distributed bug tracking. Lumiera won't be useful for a long time, so there is some time to get that. Right now the wiki is being used for such things, however, as the project will start to get interesting for others than developers - the bug tracking problem must be solved. Nice to see others are working hard to find solutions.

Advocacy tip: Don't assume readers know what the heck your project does. Nor the older project
that yours is replacing. I had to do a search to reveal that Cinelerra-CV is a video editing
system. That's 2 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.