How to Become an OpenShot Developer

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To become an OpenShot developer

If you're a developer (or aspiring to become one) with an interest in contributing new features, fixing bugs, enhancing the user interface, or creating new templates for OpenShot, this guide will walk you through the essential steps and processes you need to follow.

Steps

To become an OpenShot developer

Overview. OpenShot is a Python-based program made up of various Python (.py) files, images (.svg, .png), XML files (.xml), GTK+ XML files (.ui), and Blender project files. Python is a compiled language, meaning there are no build or compilation files required to run OpenShot. If you modify any source file, simply close and restart OpenShot to see your changes reflected.

To get the latest source code.LaunchPad.netBazaarBazaarDebianUbuntu

Bazaar/openshot/home/home/USER/openshot/

/openshot/

Set up your environment.Synaptic$ openshot

Now that you have the latest source code and all dependencies, you can either use a text editor (like gedit), or a fully integrated development environment like Eclipse or Aptana (with Pydev) to modify the source code. The advantage of using a full Python IDE is improved debugging capabilities. While it's beyond the scope of this document to teach debugging Python with Eclipse or Aptana, there are plenty of online resources and books available for guidance.

Fix your first bug. Now that you have the latest version of OpenShot running, fixing bugs and adding new features is simple. Modify the files, restart OpenShot, and you’ll see your changes take effect. Of course, I can’t tell you exactly how to fix bugs, as that’s up to you. Good luck!

Share your changes with the OpenShot team.diff

This will create a file called mychanges.patch, which contains all the modifications for the files you’ve changed. If you’ve created new files, you’ll need to compress them into a ZIP or TAR archive and include them with your mychanges.patch file.

Next, create a new bug report on LaunchPad (or find an existing one), and upload your patch and any related files to that bug report. That’s it! The OpenShot team will be notified via email that your patch has been submitted. You can then subscribe to the bug report and follow up to see if there are any questions or comments on your patch.

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