[mythtv] Development of MythTV

[Tako Schotanus]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:08 pm, Henk Poley wrote:
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>>May I then ask Isaac what are more or less the things a patch or new
>>feature (etc.) must comply to, other than the obvious 'should be written
>>correctly' and 'shouldn't break anything'? IMHO, MythTV is about "the
>>mythical convergence", meaning bundleing of all media (video, music, news,
>>photo's) into one networked system.
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>>What is your opinion to that Isaac? Or anyone else with CVS write access
>>for this project.
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>>Would those ideas mean that there is "no need for, a show mouse cursor
>>toggle, FireWire support (think home videos), a C# client running on other
>>operating systems than linux and some other things." among other things?
>>(that was quoting myself, but okay)
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>Those ideas mean that you should not be writing up a list of your personal 
>requests and presenting them as a list of things for other people to work on.
>If someone wants to contribute, they should work on what _they_ want to work 
>on.
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I agree with you that a centralized list managed by someone (or a group) 
that somehow certain features are "cool to have" isn't the way to go. 
But on the other hand I sometimes think it's a pity that we don't have a 
more "structured" way of focusing some of the discussions.

Theoretically (saying this because I know you disagree ;-) having either 
something like Bugzilla to track bugs and features or just a forum where 
you can decide for yourself which topics interest you would be able to 
increase developer commitment: highly technical messages don't get 
swamped by discussion about the color of this or that button so 
discussions stay more focused. Topical information becomes easier to 
find and people getting into the discussion late can still participate 
or revive a long-dead one with new information.

Personally I miss having something like bugzilla for Myth, because 
believe it or not I wouldn't mind spending part of my day looking 
through the open bugs to see if there is something that I can fix. So 
why don't I do so now? Because I don't know which bugs there are. The 
only bugs I've ever fixed in Myth are the ones I encountered myself (and 
found irritating enough). This also has to do with the fact that I would 
like to help but just don't have enough time for anything "big", but 
even small bugs need fixing, so....

I'll get off my soapbox now ;-)

Cheers,
 -Tako