[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] torrentocracy = rss + bit torrent + myth

[John Kuhn]

you sir have done nothing wrong.. i think what you created is great.. i 
personally was skeptical of its intentions are first (ie: my post to the 
users list) but i see you have good and clear intentions for it..

unfair of issac to come down on you like he did.. when mythtv itself 
does some questionable things according to the law.. as the same of your 
program mythtv does nothing illegal but can be easily used todo so..

still trying to find some time to install your plugin myself.. but i'll 
be a user for sure..

--John

Gary Lerhaupt wrote:

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>>I would like to mention that, in the past, people developing plugins 
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>>myth have demonstrated the courtesy of discussing their project with 
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>>developers prior to writing it; this has served three purposes:
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>>1) avoids duplicate work of a similar or same effort is already 
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>>2) helps to recruit other potentially interested developers
>>3) helps to gauge interest and potentially weed out projects that 
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>>be incorporated
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>>There have been other plugins that people have stopped developing 
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>before
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>>they started based on this sort of feedback. This is hard to do when 
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>>take the liberty of announcing your plugin to slashdot readers prior 
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>>getting feedback from the other developers on the project. You might 
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>>consider that you slighted a few folks, at least two of which are
>>unappreciative of what you've done with their work, by not 
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>demonstrating
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>>this relatively normal courtesy.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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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