[mythtv] MythTV Usability Report
Isaac Richards
ijr at case.edu
Mon Jan 9 05:25:01 UTC 2006
On Monday 09 January 2006 00:19, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:27:21 -0600
> From: Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net>
>
> Steve Hodge wrote:
> >On 1/9/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> >>I agree and I think he should take the time to make a similar
> >> evaluation of the latest code rather than spending time on things
> >> that have already been addressed
> >
> >Unfortunately most people are not able to run a development version of
> >MythTV. They only have one system with capture cards and that system
> >must be as stable as possible as it is essentially a production
> >system.
>
> Actually most people can. Myth is a very stable product in the SVN
> branch compared to other projects I've used.
>
> *cough* Anyone who had other people depending on the operation of the
> box would have had a difficult time explaining that LiveTV was broken
> for weeks because the lead developer did the work on the mainline
> instead of a branch. (And if your next move is to say, "But LiveTV
> isn't what Myth is about!", then why did Isaac spend so much time
> rewriting it?)
>
> Sure, Isaac presumably had his reasons for doing the work on the
> mainline, even though it was a matter of some controversy even to
> other developers.
I asked the other developers _first_. None cared if I disabled it. Don't
lie.
Isaac
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