[mythtv] [ANNOUNCE] MythUI Port

[Bill Williamson]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:31 AM, Chad <masterclc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Stuart Morgan <stuart at tase.co.uk> wrote:
>  > In the coming days and weeks more of MythTV will be converted to use MythUI,
>  >  the new UI library. This will break many themes and may temporarily break
>  >  some screens or plugins.
>  >
>  >  As Janne advised for the QT4 changes, it is not recommended that you run trunk
>  >  on production systems and that you switch to 0.21-fixes.
>  >
>  >  I'd also like to ask that you don't report broken themes, especially not those
>  >  which aren't in mythtv/themes or myththemes.
>  >  --
>  >  Stuart Morgan
>  >  _______________________________________________
>
>  This is all great news, I'm very happy to hear of these development
>  efforts.  I'm curious though, will there be an announcement when
>  people should again begin testing trunk?


This is my major/only gripe with mythtv.

When something doesn't work in -fixes, you're told to use SVN head.
When something doesn't work in SVN head, you're told to use -fixes.

It seems like this could be worked around by doing shorter
feature-related releases...

For example, .21 could have been released months ago with just the
UPnP fixes, backend fixes, and a lot of the general fixes.
.22 could have been just the multi-rec- merge.
.23 was the new video decoder (myth-vid branch)

and so on.  It's how many other projects work, where "HEAD" isn't
really cvs-style head, it's just the most current INTEGRATED build,
and releases are made from it each time things are stable.