Most of you probably aware that (for the first time in Synfig history!) we have hired a full-time developer in August - Ivan Mahonin. He is works on Synfig code right now and I’m running this campaign to establish a funding for his further work. Please read a full campaign description for details.
Notice, that it’s not just a fundraising - it’s a great chance to control the direction of Synfig development. I mean, real control.
It is also a chance to attract investments to Synfig development.
So, everyone! I really want Synfig to be developed faster. That’s my goal. Do you want?
Support the campaign, spread a word around, let’s keep the development running!
I will be happy to answer all your questions below.
–Konstantin
Fantastic.
I just have one question: If only a perk is picked up and the foundation goal is not reached, would that perk will be done?
Congratulations!
-G
UPDATE: In the very first day our fundraising campaign got an unexpected twist. We have received a donation of $300 from an “anonymous” person. He leaves the “Choose Priority” perk unclaimed and puts a suggestion:
For sure, changing the game rules this way wouldn’t hurt and such generosity is highly appreciated.
Let’s keep it up!
How much do you reckon I would have to pay for a better keyframing system?
The current one on synfig for me is extremely unusable and it feels like I’m wasting my time alot my duplicatnig many key frames etc.
I would like there to be support for box selecting many keyframes as once, then being able to manioulate them.
The manipulations I would like is to be able to copy and paste, and delete <-- that one’s big I once spent an exuberent amount of time going through and deleting key frames one by one I no longer wanted.
so a quote for that would be nice c: thankyou
also sorry if this is in the wrong spot, if it is, where should I put it?
EDIT: I think by keyframes I actually mean way points
This is a perfect place to ask about such things. There are two options here.
First, you could claim for development priority within our fundraising campaign for next month. We haven’t started a new campaign yet, but we will do very soon.
Perhaps, your request above is not that big to dedicate a whole one-month development priority to it. So, we can think about more broad task, with consideration to implement the features requested by you in the first place. Something like “Improve TimeTrack panel UI”.
Second option: you can put a bounty to BountySource service - bountysource.com/teams/synfig
Just choose a bug from our bugtracker (you might consider this, this or this) and submit your bounty.
(Maybe you will want to submit your own request into bug tracker, because the clear formulation of the task is very important here - you put a bounty for an exact issue, so it will define how exactly results are estimated).
The advantages of this option - you do not have to pay for a full priority. Also other people can join and put the bounties for your issue as well. So you don’t have to pay the whole amount by yourself.
Thankyou I reckon I will add a request to the synfig bounty source website, when I have some money to spare.
I am curious if I could be used as a programmer, I have around a year experience in c++, however I haven’t written much lately, and I’m learning python, the thing that’s holding me back is that I have no idea where to get started, as in there are other people working on features like the bones and the single window UI however how is it that my updates wont break the updates of the other devs, or do they collaborate? and also when I downloaded the source, to compile it seemed very complicated, and just looking at the source it was very intimidating, I’ve never worked on anything like this before.
Is it even possible for an outsider to come in and be able to work on something without having to read the entire program and understand it all?
Thankyou, for some reason I had a feeling I would not recieve a reply, thankyou for taking the time to do so.
It’s absolutely possible for an outsider to come and start working (this is how most of us do).
It’s best to start by forking an official repository at github - github.com/synfig/synfig
That way you will get your own repository where you can commit stuff.
It isn’t necessary to read a whole program to get something done. A good IDE with debugging features would help a lot for understanding what’s happening (my preference is NetBeans ^^).
After you have something done (it’s best to start with small modifications) - commit into your repository and send a “pull request” into the main repository. Your entry will be reviewed and you’ll get a feedback if something is wrong. If everything is fine - then your changes will be applied into main repository.
If you in doubt about something - feel free to contact other devs at developers mailing list. They are all good and nice people. ^^
