[mythtv-users] how to improve Myth (was "OT: I'm streaming Netflix on my Linux box")

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:21 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:54:26AM -0700, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> > On Oct 9, 2008, at 6:01 AM, jedi wrote:
> >
> > >    Yes, because in "real" projects all you have is coders. You don't
> > > have anyone like designers or artists.
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by that. Every project I've ever worked on has
> > designers and/or artists.
>
>     That was sarcasm, since you seem to think those sorts of people
> have no place in this project.
>
> >
> > >    It's very shortsighted to try and suppress the expression of new
> > > ideas. Just because someone isn't quite up to diving into subversion,
> > > it doesn't mean that their ideas can't be useful to someone that is.
> >
> > No one is suppressing ideas. They are raised, discussed and either
>
>     Sure you are, every time you whine that something has been mentioned
> before. If multiple people are coming up with the same idea over and over
> again, there's probably a good reason for it.


No one is denying the validity of the reason but the end result is the
same.  No code, no feature.  If you know of another way to turn ideas into
features without someone coding it, by all means, let's hear it.  Otherwise,
the point being made is that the repeated rehasing of previously discussed
ideas does very little in terms of real value.  Sure, it *might* spark the
interest of some new developer but these are also not "low hanging fruit"
that a new coder would be likely to tackle as their first foray into MythTV
development.

If you've seen the level of activity going into the MythTV code right now,
you'd also see that those core developers are *actively* making significant
changes to the system leaving little time for any other feature requests at
this point.


>
>
> > coded by the people who want it or added to the wish list until
> > someone runs across it who is interested in coding it.
> >
> > This becomes a problem is when people don't search the archives and
> > discuss the same (obvious) problems over and over again. It's a waste
> > of time and frustrating. If someone has some new idea to add to the
>
>     Don't be such an ass. If you can't handle ideas being repeated, that's
> really your problem.


And why are you so offended that someone has pointed out that this has been
discussed over and over and over again here?

Kevin
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