Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Larry Sanderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larry.sanderson@gmail.com">larry.sanderson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family: 'Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tuesday 27 January 2009 09:32:04 am Kevin Kuphal wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
> If you want to track comments/tickets/bugs, set up your own<br>
> Trac for what essentially is your own fork/custom version of MythTV.<br>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p></div>Do you want the user community to fork mythtv? If so, then keep turning away highly useful community provided patches.<br>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p>The devs should be welcoming this work. Instead of: "We proclaimed on high that 0.21-fixes shall not have X feature", perhaps instead your stance should be "We thought it would be too much work to backport/maintain this feature, but look! Someone did the work for us, thanks so much."<br>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br></p>Please don't forget what the "open" in open source means.</div></blockquote><div><br>I thought I'd throw my two cents in here. The 0.21-fixes branch is meant for exactly what it's named after - fixes. It is a branch of the stable release meant ONLY for fixes to that branch. If the developers were to maintain new features in both trunk and previous branches, they'd be splitting their time senselessly.<br>
<br>What you fail to understand is that just because a patch is submitted, the work isn't done by far. That patch needs to be reviewed, tested, benchmarked and approved. These steps take time - especially for any VDPAU implementation. It's not exactly fair to all users either.<br>
<br>Let's assume the patch gets added to -fixes without the review process, and though it works for those seeking VDPAU, it breaks some features used by other users. Now you've turned a stable branch into an unstable one.<br>
<br>- Mark.<br></div></div>