[mythtv-users] MythFrontend 0.21: What is a watch list?

[Paul Bender]

Tim Phipps wrote:
> Paul Bender wrote
>> In my case, it has very little to do with time. Rather it has to do with 
>> desire. I work on Open Source projects for my benefit not other people's 
>> benefit. Adding functionality that I want benefits me. As a result, I am 
>> motivated to do the work. Adding documentation of functionality that I 
>> added does not benefit me. As a result, I am not motivated to do the work.
>>
> I've got to ask: why bother even checking in your work?
> Cheers,
> Tim.
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For projects that I maintain, I check code in because development is 
much more difficult without a version control system that allows you be 
back out your mistakes.

With projects to which I have contributed, I have contributed because it 
is often easier to get the patches I want into the mainline code than it 
is to update the patch each time a new release comes out. However, in 
the cases where much resistance is encountered, I just continue to 
maintain the patches for myself.

For projects that I maintain, there are differing reasons why I make 
them available to others. For example, I make MiniMyth available because 
having other people build and use it helps me learn more about creating 
cross compilation environments and Linux distributions. Since I like to 
learn, making it available to others is a selfish motivation. As 
MiniMyth uses can attest, I took me quite some time before I created any 
up-to-date documentation. Even now, the MiniMyth documentation is rather 
limited and somewhat disorganized.