[mythtv-users] SVN removal howto

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Osma Ahvenlampi wrote:

> On su, 2008-02-24 at 17:39 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> Yeah.  Every indication says the project is dead.  There's hardly any
>> activity in Trac and I don't remember the last time I saw a message  
>> on
>> the mailing lists.  Plus, most people have moved on to bigger/better
>> media players, like Elisa and Linux MCE.
>
> And that's the other turn-off, frankly. I understand and am used to  
> the
> attitude that "users don't matter, anyone who this program is meant  
> for
> is gonna be comfortable, nay, ecstatic about recompiling SVN on a
> weekly, nay, daily, nay, hourly basis (as opposed to, say, recording  
> or
> watching something), and reading 500 messages per day on a mailing  
> list
> certainly oughtn't be an issue to anyone" -- and personally, I don't
> care about that either. However, it's this attitude and the lack of
> regular releases that will keep MythTV from ever being mainstream
> software, though feature-wise it could easily fit the bill -- it is,
> after all, significantly more functional than, say, Windows MCE.
>
> And to this you'll respond "and we don't want to be mainstream if that
> means users who can't keep up with the mailing list". That's fine.  
> It's
> just not the demonstrated route to REALLY high quality, polished and
> "successful" software.
>
> I've made this point before, and I'm not the only one to have done  
> so. I
> don't expect this to make any difference, but just in case it might, I
> did want to yet again point out there is another way to do things. But
> never mind...

Maybe you need to adjust your expectations.