[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth
Gary Lerhaupt
gary at lerhaupt.com
Tue Jun 22 10:32:58 EDT 2004
> I would like to mention that, in the past, people developing plugins
for
> myth have demonstrated the courtesy of discussing their project with
other
> developers prior to writing it; this has served three purposes:
>
> 1) avoids duplicate work of a similar or same effort is already
underway
> 2) helps to recruit other potentially interested developers
> 3) helps to gauge interest and potentially weed out projects that
will never
> be incorporated
>
> There have been other plugins that people have stopped developing
before
> they started based on this sort of feedback. This is hard to do when
you
> take the liberty of announcing your plugin to slashdot readers prior
to
> getting feedback from the other developers on the project. You might
want to
> consider that you slighted a few folks, at least two of which are
> unappreciative of what you've done with their work, by not
demonstrating
> this relatively normal courtesy.
>
I agree I could have handled this better. However, I might add that I
did post the plugin announcement on this list four days before
submitting anything to slashdot. I received little to no feedback
except a couple people who said they thought it was really cool. As
well, I personally emailed a couple active people in Myth development
in order to solicit their opinions. I only started receiving negative
feedback yesterday.
I'm also sorry if I caused bandwidth zapping for mythtv.org. I just
assumed that any publicity would be welcome and if anything, wanted to
show deference for the large amount of great work done by others. I
guess this was a wrong assumption. Again, I apologize.
However, I should say that I still think this is a viable application
and worthy of development regardless if the maintainers of this
project agree or do not. I think a lot of people see a use in it, and
I think it was a no-brainer that somebody would eventually develop
this. Sometimes on this list I see others carping that those with
suggestions would be better off spending some time programming rather
than suggesting, I have done just that.
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