[mythtv-users] Mything thomething

[Robert McNamara]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Joe Henley <joehenley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> I gotta agree with "fluffkinuk at yahoo."
>
> I have 0.23-1 running on a backend server with two front ends running
> MiniMyth.  I'm by no means a Linux expert, nor do I consider myself a
> newbie.
>
> I'm running 0.23-1 and not 0.24 because it's too much hassle to update.
> When there is some compelling reason, I will update; but it seems like I
> find it useful only about every third or fourth version.
>
> I'm retired so I have the time to work on updates.  It usually takes me
> several weeks (several hours a day on average, I'd guess) working on it
> to get a new version working well (enough to to keep the WAF high).
>
> What takes so long?  Little to no documentation (sorry, what was written
> for a version three rounds ago and is mostly complete is NOT
> sufficient).  Documentation written by someone who thinks they are
> writing it for someone who already knows how to do it.  Documentation
> which some say is inferior to reading the code (really, are you
> serious?).  I'm old enough to remember the old IBM mainframe and
> mf/language documentation.  Completely unintelligible, unless you
> already knew what to do -- then it served fairly well as a cross
> reference.  Some of what I read today is worse.  And there seem to be
> some folks who openly applaud that type of documentation with a wave of
> the hand and a "if you don't write code to enhance the product, don't
> complain about the product."

For what it's worth, given your available time and your passion for
documentation, we are very, very grateful for any assistance in
keeping it current and useful.  The primary documentation has moved to
the wiki, please feel free to improve it.

Robert