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KStopmotion / Linux-Stopmotion

Sponsor: Carl Schwan

Linux Stopmotion / KStopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.

Direct capture from webcams, MiniDV cameras, and DSLR cameras. It offers onion-skinning, import images from disk, and time lapse photography. Linux Stopmotion / KStopmotion supports multiple scenes, frame editing, basic sound track, animation playback at different frame rates, and GIMP integration for image. Movies can be exported to a file and to Cinelerra frame lists.

Technically, it is a C++ / Qt application with optional dependencies to camera capture libraries.

Discussions and changes during the incubation

With release 0.8.6 we introduced CMake as build system, qmake is going to removed for master.
We use KDE invent for code hosting, continuous testing, issue tracking.
We decided to renamed the application to KStopmotion, as Linux is trademarked.
We should integrate better to KDE's tech stack: Internationalization, using KDE libraries, update and reformat documentation.
We should gain both users and contributors from the KDE community. If we fail to do so, KStopmotion has no future as it relies on too few people.

Team

List the people committed to the project and actively working on it:

Tim Band
Christoph Grüninger

Manifesto Compliance Plan

List the actions planned to get in compliance with the manifesto. Don't hesitate to even list parts of the manifesto which don't require action and highlight why. This part will really be used as a discussion starting point with the project sponsor.

Sponsor Checklists

Candidate ready

Status	Description	Notes
TO DO	Project description	...	<{{{3}}}>
DONE	Project team	see above
TO DO	Manifesto compliance plan	...	<{{{3}}}>

Incubating

Status	Description	Notes
DONE	Repository and code available (in playground)	2021-04-13: Repository copied from SourceForge to https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/stopmotion
DONE	Mailing list available	2021-04-28: Mailing list [email protected] created and started to use
TO DO	Website available (if applicable)	...	<{{{3}}}>
TO DO	Active community	...	<{{{3}}}>
TO DO	Manifesto compliance	...	<{{{3}}}>

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-Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion
+Linux Stopmotion / KStopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion
 animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation
 and export them as a single file.
 Direct capture from webcams, MiniDV cameras, and DSLR cameras. It offers
-onion-skinning, import images from disk, and time lapse photography. LSM
+onion-skinning, import images from disk, and time lapse photography. Linux Stopmotion / KStopmotion
 supports multiple scenes, frame editing, basic sound track, animation
 playback at different frame rates, and GIMP integration for image.
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 === Discussions and changes during the incubation ===
-* We evaluate to switch to CMake as the build system.
+* With release 0.8.6 we introduced CMake as build system, qmake is going to removed for master.
-* We renamed the application to KStopmotion, as Linux is [https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/trademark-usage/ trademarked].
+* We use KDE invent for code hosting, continuous testing, issue tracking.
+* We decided to renamed the application to KStopmotion, as Linux is [https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/trademark-usage/ trademarked].
+* We should integrate better to KDE's tech stack: Internationalization, using KDE libraries, update and reformat documentation.
+* We should gain both users and contributors from the KDE community. If we fail to do so, KStopmotion has no future as it relies on too few people.
 == Team ==
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 List the actions planned to get in compliance with the manifesto. Don't hesitate to even list parts of the manifesto which don't require action and highlight why. This part will really be used as a discussion starting point with the project sponsor.
-=== Update May 2022 ===
-{{Input|1=<nowiki>
-I wrote a replacement of the build system [1], but did not feel confident for
-merging it. In the meantime I have been busy reanimating some 20+ year old
-academic finite element code [2]. I learnt to use the GitLab CI system. I want
-to set this up for KStopmotion, too. That will help me replacing the build
-system without breaking the code on other distributions.
-Actually, I was hoping to attract some developers and being able to interact a
-little bit more with them. I assume I have to write more code myself, make a
-release (in consultation with Tim Band), and do some more PR like writing on
-Planet KDE and such.
-Maybe it is also a good idea to migrate to Qt 6.2. It should not be that hard
-and will help me get more familiar with our code base.
-</nowiki>}}
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