[mythtv-users] XvMC and Libmpeg2, bug?

[MacNean Tyrrell]

Had no idea thanks. I'll try to post most of my bug/things here first.

On 10/30/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
>
> > MacNean Tyrrell wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Already fixed (by totally reworking the controls), but thanks for
> >> reporting it on the list before making a ticket. That's one more
> >> feature we'll all enjoy because of the developer time you've
> >> saved by
> >> not making a ticket for them to deal with. :)
> >>
> >> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/473
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> Is that sarcastic? Sorry didn't realize i was supposed to make
> >> tickets and stuff. Thought it wasn't supposed to work that way, but
> >> i thought it might, so i didn't want to make a ticket for something
> >> stupid like that. But if i'm supposed to i will.
> >
> > No, that wasn't sarcastic. Too many people go ahead and create a
> > ticket for any little problem, without reporting it on the -users
> > mailing list first to find out if it's a real bug. Kudos to you for
> > taking the time to do a little homework before making a developer have
> > to waste time closing out an invalid ticket.
>
> Right. I was truly thanking you. Sorry for the confusion, but I really
> wanted to thank you for posting it here first. Too many already-fixed
> bugs or non-bugs get reported on Trac and a lot of developer time is
> wasted on them.
>
> Often, the developer closes the ticket as invalid with a short message
> describing why it's invalid and then the user--unable to understand why
> it's invalid based on the short message--reopens the ticket, forcing the
> developer to re-close the ticket with a much longer, more descriptive
> message explaining exactly why it's invalid (i.e. already fixed,
> misunderstanding of the feature, user-configuration error, etc.)--and
> sometimes this happens two or three times before the user understands
> why the ticket is invalid. A /lot/ of developer time gets spent on
> tickets like these (individually, they may not take /that/ much time,
> but together...) which turns out to be that much less time the developer
> can spend writing code for Myth.
>
> So, once again--this time, explicitly non-sarcastically--thank you.
>
> Mike
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--
Sincerely,

MacNean C. Tyrrell
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