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

[Thomas Mashos]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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I'd like to thank everyone for the kind words. I've always liked the
look of the Mythbuntu theme, but wasn't using it due to some of the
bugs in the 0.25 version. So I decided to fix it. I literally hadn't
done any MythTV theming until a few nights ago, and while starting a
theme from scratch would be a huge amount of work, fixing bugs and
maintaining a current one is pretty easy. Layout is pretty easy once
you look at the XML files. The most difficult part I had was figuring
out the QT stuff (which isn't necessary for layout, but of course I
tried to do the hard stuff first). I probably only worked 2 hours on
the few things I've fixed so far.

If anyone wants to get involved with maintaining this theme, shoot me
an email. If you need to file bugs or have ideas (wishlist bugs) for
the Mythbuntu theme then I urge you to file a bug at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu since I won't guarentee that I
see the bugs anywhere else.

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos