[mythtv] HAL and myth was "thoughts about the "mythtv sucks" comments... " was "video sources"

[Chris Ribe]

>
> I'm replying to Don's post, but this is aimed not at any individual but to
> the
> list in general.


Similarly, I'm replying to Stuart's post, but this is aimed at the list in
general.  I am responsible for the words "mythtv sucks" being in the
subject, and there seems to be some misunderstanding about what I was
saying.


> The devs are well aware of the faults, failings and limitations of mythtv.
> If
> we had the time many of these issues would have been addressed long ago


[deletia ]


> The problem isn't that MythTV has dozens of developers waiting for good
> ideas
> to implement, it's the opposite, there are hundreds of ideas and tickets
> to
> be worked on but only a handful of people willing or able to spend their
> time
> working on it.


While I am certain this is generally true, if you go back to the beginning
of this thread,  you will find it is simply not the case in this instance.


Justin Hornsby, who *is*  an active myth developer, although his work is
distributed separately due to license preferences, suggested a change and
volunteered to implement the change.  Half a dozen people then responded in
concurrence that a change was needed, and there was some debate about the
what the exact change should be.

Then Mike Dean joined in and said (grossly paraphrased for dramatic effect)
"Everything is perfect the way it is, and no one has ever complained about
this problem."

Now, my point here isn't to pick on Mike, either. He communicates more with
the user base than any other dev.  I only wanted to point out that the shape
of the overall debate had taken a familiar form: someone offered to help fix
a problem and was given the old not-invented-here runaround.

I don't necessarily want the core dev team to change the way they work:
mythbackend is the preeminent piece of PVR scheduling/content management
software.  Features continue to be added before we even realize we want
them.  The frontend is the most feature rich remote control compatible
frontend out there.   It somehow manages to combine much of the slickness of
FrontRow with much of the tweakability of mplayer.  It could benefit from
some more attention, though.  The setup and configuration interfaces of
mythtv are a travesty.

My concern is that the weaker aspects of mythtv will continue be neglected
because the devs will continue to discourage and resist  anyone outside
their group making changes that will affect the public's interaction with
mythtv.

All that said, I'll take it upon myself to improve the setup/config
interface if I can get half a dozen people to agree with me on some portion
of what I am saying.

-chris



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