[mythtv] ease onto the devel list

[Allan Stirling]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:24 -0800, tgate wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> So my question is...  Is it helpful for me to report these when they  
>>> show up?  If so, I assume doing so through the Trac interface?  Or  
>>> should I assume they are understood and getting taken  care of?
>>>
>>> -todd
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You should also monitor the mythtv-commits mailing list / archives:
>> http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-commits/
>>
>> If you see nothing on dev, or in commits (including other bug reports)
>> that reference your problem, then I'd think it's safe to enter a
>> ticket.
>> Brian
>>  
>>
> 
> Before creating tickets about compilation problems, I'd make sure to do 
> a 'make distclean; ./configure; make', just to be sure it's really a 
> problem.
> 

To add to this, tickets usually get more attention when they include a patch.

Even if it's not complete, it gives someone a quick reference as to exactly 
what the issue is.

Cheers,

Allan.