[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1219: LiveTV takes a while to start, and video jerks forwards

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 06 February 2006 03:12, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On Monday 06 February 2006 07:26, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Monday 06 February 2006 02:21, Stutty wrote:
> > > On 2/6/06, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> > > > Is _noone_ capable of doing any sort of debugging without having
> > > > someone holding their hand through the process?
> > > >
> > > > Isaac
> > >
> > > For 99% of users the answer to that is no.
> >
> > That's pefectly expected of the people using a release, I'd just like to
> > get more from the people who are tracking SVN.  Just really discouraging
> > - it's rather hard to even get people to tell what revision they're using
> > a good chunk of the time. =(
>
> releases are quite far apart *and* the response to a lot of bug reports is
> "fixed in svn"
>
> would it be worth considering providing a small program which printed out
> the important details about a system:
>
> os, sw versions, major configuration settings
>
> perhaps in some shorthand way. which would have to be appended to a bug
> report to be considered. it might make your life less stressful in the long
> run.

Unfortunately, the majority of people out there wouldn't run it.  So, if it 
were required, I'd still be marking lots of tickets as 'invalid' pending that 
information being provided, and I'd still have random people complaining that 
that's mean.  Wouldn't really change anything.

Isaac