[mythtv-users] MythTV Frontend for Android released on Market

[James Linder]

On 24/02/2012, at 6:59 AM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:

>>> Make this OpenSource, and I could imagine a lot of other people would
>>> be happy to work on this project!
>> 
>> Experience indicates otherwise. ?While the MythTV user base estimated in
>> the tens of thousands, the number of users who participate on the
>> mailing list, wiki, or submit tickets to trac are in the low single
>> digit percent.
> 
> I would have been happy to contribute over the past many years if not
> for the complexity of the code (threaded QT / C++).  Yes, I realize
> that QT and C++ leverage is how the core developers have managed to
> develop the amazing application that we have today - so it is
> something of a catch-22.   I don't have data to back it up, but it
> would not surprise me at all if there were more people like me than
> number of people that have contributed thus far.
> 
>> Users who submit patches to trac are significantly lower
>> still, although admittedly, the often slow turn around time on feature
>> patches provides a disincentive towards doing so.
> 
> Agreed.  From personal experience, it even affects motivation on
> submitting bug reports - which in some ways is worse for the project
> than the lack of developers.

Saying this another way:

I open a ticket saying something is wrong

The ticket is closed saying you idiot, you are wasting my precious time with your stupid utterings (and to be fair not everybody behaves like this - thanks to those who don't)
Now me: I've found something wrong, I braved the trac, feedback et al gauntlet because I think it may be of aid to everyone ...
so I go away chastened never to return

James