[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1520: Don't automatically add new channels in mythfilldatabase

[Tom Lichti]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/16/2006 11:39 AM, Tom Lichti wrote:
>
>   
>> Well, it would be simple enough for Zap2it to add a 'don't add new 
>> channels to my listing' option (or just a 'lock listing' option), then 
>> they wouldn't be serving all that extra data. An email to the registered 
>> account holder with new channel updates would suffice, I think.
>>     
> Ahh, to be young and to believe, again...  ;)
>   
I haven't been called young in awhile... :)
> --if Myth is going to take 
> on the responsibility of preventing lineup changes (since the provider 
> hasn't), I want to make sure we do it right.
>   
Well, if they aren't going to help themselves, why should we bend over 
backwards for them?
> I feel that because they're providing a free service, we (the Myth 
> community) should do everything we can to help them make it succeed (or, 
> from another standpoint, to prevent it from failing--which would cause a 
> lot of North American users problems).  
Understood, but we are trying to help...
> Therefore, if Myth users want to 
> be able to prevent new channels from appearing on their lineups, we need 
> to make sure that doing so doesn't increase the problems they're 
> currently experiencing.  I think Myth proved itself a member of the 
> community in "good standing" during their recent cut-back to 3-days 
> listings (when they learned we only download tomorrow and +13 days), so 
> I'd like to help maintain our status.
>   
Agreed, but how far do we have to go? I think an alert in Myth that 
there are new channels (that have been ignored) would be sufficient.

Tom