[mythtv-users] SVN removal howto

[Osma Ahvenlampi]

On to, 2008-02-21 at 10:48 -0500, Josh White wrote:
> Someone who has seen the transition from .17 to .18, .18 to .19, .19
> to .20...could conceivably have a better idea of when they started
> hearing "it's close" on the discussion group to "it's here" based on
> how the transitions from the last major versions to the next went.

Well.. for what it's worth, I've been using MythTV since 0.18.2. Half a
year ago I was really frustrated by the lack of a stable release (0.20
has never been stable), so I did some research. Since then, I've stopped
caring about it, but here's what I dug up:

First public release, 0.8, was made on March 16th, 2003. Since then, the
release schedule has been one of:

0.9 three months (85 days) later.
0.10 three weeks (22 days) after that.
0.11-0.14 approximately two months apart from each other (64, 53, 56
days).
0.15 and 0.16 four months apart (112 and 107 days)
0.17, five months (154 days)
0.18, two months (63 days)
0.19, 10 months (303 days)
0.20, 7 months (211 days), 0.20.2 one year (349 days) after 0.20.

Still waiting for 0.21.. It's been six months since 0.20.2, or a year
and a half since 0.20. Now there's a promise to make the release this
month, but I wouldn't hold my breath -- it seems to me Trac has as many
open tickets against 0.21 as there's been every time I've looked in the
past.

Like I said, I don't care any more, so no critique implied - simply an
observation of something I've seen fail before.

Given how long 0.21 has been in the making, I'm hesitant to consider an
upgrade anyway - it's probably at least as unstable as 0.20 was. I guess
that's another six months at least for 0.21.2 until it might be stable.
Still, I know I'll probably bite the bullet pretty soon, even if I'm
going to be sorry I did.

//osma