MLT / Kdenlive / OpenShot bugzilla questions

It seems quite a mess has been made lately with these packages and I'd like to start getting them cleaned up and need some mentoring. 1. There are several bugs open for MLT that I'd like to consolidate, I know in general newer bugs should be marked as duplicates of older ones but as most (all) of the discussion is happening in 1688 I'd like to mark all the other bugs duplicates of it. 2. The video preview problem in MLT has been fixed in GIT but I'd rather wait for an official point release if it will be available soon. To that end, kdenlive will need to be updated at the same time but I haven't heard from Ryan in a couple of weeks. I assume that this is due to college finals but I have no way of knowing for sure. I'm sure there's more that I haven't thought to ask yet but that should be enough to get started. Thanks, Richard