[mythtv] should mythtv be forked?

[Robert Middleswarth]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Monday 21 March 2005 01:36 pm, Bryan Murphy wrote:
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>>Isaac Richards wrote:
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>>>On Monday 21 March 2005 12:42 pm, andrew burke wrote:
>>>The reason bugzilla's not linked on the main page is that it's been
>>>fairly useless, in my opinion.  I get better results handling bugs posted
>>>to the lists - better feedback from other people, it's more likely that
>>>the reporter will actually _respond_ if more information is requested,
>>>etc.
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>>>The main reason I started the bug tracker in the first place is because a
>>>lot of people _insisted_ that they would help with development more if
>>>there was a list of bugs for them to fix.  To date, I don't believe a
>>>single (external to 'main develoeprs') bug fix has come from it.
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>>I just want to point out that this is a chicken and egg scenario.
>>People don't use it because it's not being used the devs.  The devs
>>don't use it because nobody else is submitting to it.
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>>If you actually made a concerted effort to use bug tracking, I suspect
>>things would change.  I know I've looked at the bug list myself only to
>>come to the conclusion that it was out of date and the list was a better
>>source of information.
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>It's not out of date at all.
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>>If you want it to work, you have to consistently use it, even when it's
>>painful.  This has consistently been my experience in my professional
>>career as a developer.
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>I'm using it as much as people submitting to it are.  I don't use it for my 
>own bugs I find, because I fix them as I find them, and going through the 
>process of submitting a bug for myself, and then marking it as fixed 
>immediately seems rather silly.
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I wouldn't say that.  I haven't programed in several years.  So I have 
no hope if fixing most things.  I have been following this list for some 
time so the 1st thing I did was upgrade to CVS then see If I could 
reproduce.  I could so I submitted a full BT and -v ALL log unto 
bugzilla ticket #238 that was on 2/28/05.  This ticket is still marked 
as NEW.  No one emailed me asking for more info.  Nothing I haven't had 
time to follow up or upgrade to the lastest to try and see if someone 
might be able to help figuire why it crashes for me.  I wouldn't call 
that being used.

>Isaac
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Robert