[mythtv-users] Feature request page on wiki
blind Pete
peter_s_d at fastmail.com.au
Fri Jan 27 11:35:35 UTC 2012
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/23/2012 02:42 AM, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> > On 23/01/2012 16:36, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> >> On 1/22/2012 19:50, Pieter De Wit wrote:
> >>> Please don't take this in the wrong light, but who, from the dev team,
> >>> looks at the "Feature Request" page on the wiki ?
> >> You can always check the wiki edit history. The simple fact is that
> >> MythTV is written by unpaid volunteers, and unpaid volunteers are only
> >> going to work on things that they have a personal use for, or otherwise
> >> interest them. Most have their own local TODO lists they want to get
> >> done anyway. Too many people thinking up ideas, and not enough actually
> >> doing them, plus the complaint I've voiced in the past about a big long
> >> list in a wiki not being easy to sift through.
> > Ok - so how about relaxing the rules around feature requests on the bug
> > tracker ?
>
> I can't find the tickets I'm actually trying to work on/reference as
> originals for duplicate tickets/point out on list/... as it is. The
> last thing we need is hundreds of new "tickets" for things that aren't
> even bugs. Our bug tracker is our bug tracker and only that. (And,
> really, even now, it either needs a good cleanup--like starting over--or
> some much better search capabilities. It's gotten too large to be
> useful--which is why we're so adamant about discussion /not/ occurring
> on the bug database.)
Do you want a two stage system? Stage one (this list), "I have
a problem", stage two, "That really is a bug, it goes on the
tracker". There will be less public feedback, but there seems to
be more of a shortage of devs rather than public.
> > Easier to manage ? I personally agree with you, imaging me
> > trying to help.....no idea where to start. Perhaps the wiki can be used
> > as a brain dump for the ideas in the bug tracker ?
>
> I'd be OK with a completely separate tracker for feature
> requests--something like Ubuntu's Brainstorm or whatever--but I have
> enough stuff on my TODO list that I, for one, am very unlikely to ever
> spend any time browsing through it (just like I'm very unlikely to spend
> any time browsing through the wiki page). That said, we're not likely
> to set up any new services (like Brainstorm) any time soon--since we
> still have to migrate a bunch of services back to our own server (they
> were moved away to allow an upgrade of the underlying distro).
>
> Mike
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