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

Stuart Morgan stuart at tase.co.uk
Thu Nov 29 11:00:10 UTC 2007


On Thursday 29 November 2007 04:38:13 Chris Ribe wrote:
> 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.

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Justin is dev with commit access, 
Mike is not. Although Mike has submitted many patches and is well respected 
among the devs who spend time in #mythtv, he isn't a 'core' developer yet. 
This isn't the case of a core developer telling a contributor that their 
patch isn't required, but the other way around. This isn't to say that Mike's 
opinion is not important, every view is important and as I said before, Mike 
has a lot of respect with some of the devs. Even Mike agrees that Video 
Sources is confusing but he has highlighted the difficulty of selecting a 
replacement.

Justin asked for opinions and got them, if he didn't expect to see some 
negative responses there would have been no need to ask the question before 
he made the change. The majority of the core devs who have spoken on the 
issue (here and in #mythtv) agree with Justin that it needs to change, the 
only sticking point is the replacement wording.
-- 
Stuart Morgan


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