[mythtv-users] Forum reminder and feature requests

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 5/9/14, 2:27 AM, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On Friday, 9 May 2014, 0:24, Matt Mossholder <matt at mossholder.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Now known as the: Archived Feature Request List. It was updated today
>>> and says: "The new Feature Request Forum replaces this wiki page.
>>> Please use it instead."
>>>
>>> --
>>> Bill
>> Eww. An opaque link to a forum site, on a wiki page titled "Feature
>> Wishlist", under a single heading of "MythTV Feature Request Forum".
>> Oh, and the word "Archived" added to the next section title. Not
>> particularly obvious.
>>
>> I can see how facilitating discussion of features could be handy, but
>> burying the wishlist in a forum just seems wrong. Might just be me.
>>
>> Oh well.
>>
>
> Few of the devs read the wiki page because it was a mess and is difficult to add replies to requests without the whole thing becoming a complete mess.
>
> It's hoped the Feature Request forum will make it easier for users to add requests and discuss them or add support for a particular request. It is also hoped that potential developers will see a request and want to help get it added.
>
>
> We are only doing things that many users have asked for in the past.
>
> The truth is we either adapt and modernise or the project dies.
>
> At the moment the doom mungers are winning and the project is on life support but the remaining devs do want to resurrect it so please be positve :)
>
> Paul H.
>
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With due respect, the wiki pages *are* a mess. If *anyone* is qualified
to document the software, it most certainly is the developer base. It
can be refined further from that base. Otherwise, none have a damned
clue about what is correct.

Adapt or modernize is true. Deal or die. Die, I'll be royally pissed
off. Pissed off enough to not bother with any project devs from today
are involved with. For, it turned into abandoned ware. Find a leader
that listens to all and move forward. It isn't rocket science and I'm
pretty damned sure you work for a living and understand our
sociology-economic system!

If I relied upon doom mongers, I and my teams would literally not be
alive today. Idiots listen to the "conventional wisdom", wise people
take risks and adapt and move forward based upon learned lessons.
The reality is, MythTV is a good product. It can be better, that is a
function of both developer capability *and* userbase
suggestions/contributions.

Good night all.