[mythtv] Development of MythTV

[Paul Woodward]

Quoting Kirby Vandivort <kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu>:

> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:59:31PM +0200, Henk Poley wrote:
> > In response to some possible troll on the Wiki (don't flame, this mail is
> not 
> > in any way related to that) I have the following question.
> > 
> > What are the plans/ideas/roadmap IRT MythTV?
> > 
> > The troll(?) said there is no need for, a show mouse cursor toggle,
> FireWire 
> > support (think home videos), a C# client running on other operating systems
> 
> > than linux and some other things. 
> > 
> > What is the 'official' stance on this by 'the developers'?
> 
> I think that it is safe to say the following (and I'm not being critical
> or harsh, or responding about any wish in particular... just stating
> reality as I've observed it over the past year or so):
> 
> For the most part, each developer has their own ideas of what they want
> mythtv to do for them.  There is no official roadmap.  Each developer
> (the people who are willing to actually write the code) decides what
> they want to spend their own time on.  Random users can make up wish
> lists from now until 2030, but someone has to be willing to write the
> code, and the developers aren't (in general; there are exceptions)
> in the business of writing code that they don't personally care about.
> 
> Isaac obviously has the final word on what actually goes into CVS, but
> the bottom line is that the developers are writing code to satisfy their
> own itches.
> 
> Due to the beauty of Open Source, anyone that wants feature X is
> completely free to download the source and start writing.  Once they have
> the feature working as they wish, they are free to send it mythtv-dev's
> way for inclusion into the CVS tree.  If it makes it, great.  If not,
> they've got the feature themselves and are free to do with it as they
> wish.
> 

That being said, any code providing new functionality and committed into CVS has
to be maintained, something which the core developers may not want to be
responsible for.