[mythtv] 3 problems with mytharchive (2 solved - patch provided)

[Matt S.]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Guillaume Laurès
<guillaume-laures at neuf.fr> wrote:
>
> Le 20 févr. 08 à 17:55, Daniel Kristjansson a écrit :
>
> > On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 15:51 +0100, Guillaume Laurès wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>
> >> Since december I quite heavily use the mytharchive to burn
> >> on DVDs shows recorded with my DVB-T cards.
> >> The mythburn.py script is really a clever thing, but I had 3 problems
> >> with it.
> > <snip>
> > For each problem open a ticket at svn.mythtv.org, attaching svn diff
> Problem 1: I'm not yet finished searching if the problem already
> exists... and I 'm a bit lost since my version is quite old actually.
> Against which version should I post a patch ? stable 0.20.2, latest ?

You should ALWAYS develop patches against SVN Head:
http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/


>
> Problem 2 was ticket #3282 already.
> One though: it was fixed 11 months ago, but still my 20.2 did not
> include it. Is there a way to help backport this kind of stuff ?
> #4537 is really cool too.

.21 is going to be released (literally) any day now - nothing will be
backported unless you take time to do it yourself.

>
> Problem 3 is new, going to open this one.
>
> Problem 4 I need to investigate more.
>
> > patches against the trunk for the problems you've solved. I don't know
> > who maintains the the mythburn.py or if it has been replaced by
> > MythArchive, but I know patches get lost on the mailing list. (I don't
> > do any archiving myself.)
> paulh seems to be active on this file, and as far as I understand it
> is actually part of mytharchive.

Correct!  Also, thanks for working on this.  I like it when more than
just the core developers submit patches to fix bugs.  Get's things
done a little faster and lightens the load for the core devs.


Thanks!
Matt