[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 04 November 2005 09:44 pm, ffrr wrote:
> Greg Estabrooks wrote:
> > A Clear Mythbug should be entered into trac. Preferrably a bug that
> > exists in latest SVN. Noone wants to waste time trying to track down a
> > described bug to find out that it was infact fixed months ago :)
>
> Can I venture something here?  Advice, strongly given here, is to only
> use 18.1, i.e. a released version.  Those who have not, like Knoppmyth,
> and the PLF rpms, have been taken to task for it.  How, then, can users
> report bugs?  There is NO way for them to know what's in the latest
> SVN.    Wouldn't a developer be aware of, or be easily able to check,
> whether a reported bug had yet been fixed since the last release?

Nono - *Users* can use SVN.  That's encouraged, as long as they know what 
they're getting in to.  It's when people release packages that don't even 
acknowledge the fact that it's a SVN checkout that I get really annoyed.  
Then a user is using SVN without even knowing it, and that's a really bad 
thing.

> I know you said 'preferably' but I'm afraid this will seldom be the case
> for the great majority of users. Or am I wrong, and is everyone running
> late SVN builds?

In my experience, the people that report the best bugs are using current SVN 
builds.  It's not that big of a deal if someone repots something that's 
already been fixed, it just saves us a lot of time if the reporter checks to 
see if it's been fixed first.

Isaac