[mythtv-users] Mything thomething

[Jay Ashworth]

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Gavin Hurlbut" <gjhurlbu at gmail.com>

> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > No, it's *not* always our fault. MythTV is *very* powerful, very
> > complicated, and not always nearly as rugged as I would like for it
> > to > be. But since there's no reasonable way to back out an upgrade, what
> > can you do, when you "upgrade it", and it goes in the toilet?
> 
> 
> One thing you can do, that a lot of people never bother with: submit
> bugs,

That I can do.

> and help fix the issues.

This, only sometimes.

>                         This can require a bit of work on the part of the
> user, but it really is the way to get things working. We have a lot of
> tickets unresolved, and a good chunk of them is because when we come
> up with a potential fix, the user is not around to help test the fix. This
> means that the ticket generally gets closed without true resolution, and
> needlessly.

Indeed.  As you know, Gav, I write a mean ticket.  :-)

I'm going to be upgrading Pam to ... I guess the latest packaged .24-fixes
to start, after the season ends.  And I pray that someone won't decide to 
cut .25 on September 13th.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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