[mythtv-users] Where best to report Mythbuntu theme bugs?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/17/2012 11:00 AM, John Veness wrote:
> On 13/08/2012 15:45, John Veness wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the "A plea for some consideration for the poor suffering MythTV
>> users" thread, a bug in the Mythbuntu theme for 0.25 was mentioned
>> (missing dates in Watch Recordings). Mike Dean suggested raising it as
>> an issue on https://github.com/MythTV-Themes/Mythbuntu/issues although I
>> notice it is already listed at
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/1004974 .
>>
>> So, where is it best to raise Mythbuntu theme bugs? Do the Mythbuntu
>> theme or the main MythTV devs have a preferred place?
>>
>> Incidentally, the other main bug that is affecting me is
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/886663 where recording
>> metadata (subtitle, season, episode number) can not be edited since 0.25
>> as the Mythbuntu theme does not support the new window.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John
>
> I'd like to publicly thank Tom Mashos, who has just fixed the two 
> Mythbuntu theme bugs referenced above.

+1

Thanks to Thomas for taking on (even more) work to help make MythTV 
great for a lot of users.  (As one of the very active Mythbuntu 
maintainers, he has a lot of other MythTV work on his plate.)

Oh, and as mentioned at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Theme_Teams , if 
anyone else out there who uses Mythbuntu theme (even if you're not using 
the Mythbuntu distribution!) would like to help out with maintenance, 
he's looking for others to help.

We currently have a large number of themes set up to allow anyone to 
become involved and active in maintenance and enhancement--you could 
even get commit privileges on the theme's repo (which may look good on 
resumes or ...--and is much easier than submitting patches, etc.).  My 
plan is that eventually we'll have teams of users working on each theme, 
so that no one person is on the hook for all the changes, so that those 
team members who don't use some plugin don't have to theme it and other 
team members who use the plugin can help with that part of it, and yet 
the team can work together to ensure consistency of style and make the 
theme better overall.

And, if done right, a team of 5-10 users working on a theme could mean 
that each team member can put in minimal effort/time and help to create 
a theme much better than any one person would have time to do.

Unfortunately, I still haven't gotten the "model" team in place--a first 
team of people working on a single theme to show others how well it 
works and to encourage others to get involved with their theme of choice.

So, if you'd like to give a little back and have some ideas for how to 
improve your theme of choice, please get in touch with the theme point 
of contact to see if you can help out.

Oh, and Thomas /just/ started with theming a couple of nights ago, so 
it's not like you need years of experience to volunteer to help.  And 
you'll likely find that helping doesn't commit you to deadlines or 
anything--that the main person who will be encouraging to finish the 
things you plan to work on will be yourself...

Mike