[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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