PiTiVi in Ubuntu 11.10 and beyond

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le vendredi 02 septembre 2011 à 15:00 -0400, Jeff Fortin a écrit :
> Hi, we're about to release a new version (hopefully this week-end) and
> I was wondering if you folks had any special requirements. The last
> time we talked with people from Ubuntu we learned that you are very
> careful about saving space on the install CD, so to make pitivi fit we
> migrated from libglade to gtkbuilder, got rid of the gconf dependency
> (maybe some other things too, I forget), and I implemented a
> soft-dependency manager so most remainings deps are optional.
> 
> We haven't heard from the Ubuntu/Canonical folks at all since I asked
> on this mailing list in May. I've been subscribed to this mailing list
> and haven't seen further discussions on revisiting the decision to
> include pitivi or not... and I couldn't get a hold of you on IRC when
> I publicly asked the question a couple of times. We're completely in
> the dark here. Can we have a status update with any outstanding issues
> you may have? 

Hey Jeff,

We discussed briefly pitivi in the desktop meeting (see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-08-23 for the logs).
The consensus during the meeting was to revisit the decision at UDS for
the LTS, the current version is 1.3mb and we were still looking to spare
some space for the CD. We also don't have an active pitivi maintainer in
Ubuntu (for the package) so nobody really advocated in its favor there.

It seems a bit late to add it back this cycle now but pitivi will still
be available in the software-center and in main and we will revisit the
decision at UDS for next cycle. Thanks for the work you and the pitivi
team are putting into the software and the efforts you made for
distributors, it will probably be considered when we discuss it at UDS!

Sebastien Bacher