[mythtv] Newb question: how does one propose a change?

[hendrixski]

Bruce,

That's a good idea.  The best way to do stuff around here is to just do 
it and submit a patch.  The SVN repository only has a few people who are 
allowed to commit to it.  You can get them to notice your feature 
requests by submitting a your feature as a patch through trac.

If you would like to figure out the overall architecture there is a 
doxygen service of the latest stable+fixes code that may be found here:  
http://www.cuymedia.net/mythtv-0.20/

If you have development questions, you can ask on IRC channel #mythtv 
... but be warned, not everybody is friendly.  This mailing list is 
usually very helpful.

If you're new to open source, learning some of the tools won't hurt: The 
"find" and "grep" commands will be your friend if you want to find 
occurrences of stuff in the code.  If you're accustomed to Eclipse doing 
that, or even giving you descriptions of classes and methods by mousing 
over them, then get ready to downgrade to KDevelop, Emacs, or Vim... or 
something that handles Qt3. 

If you would like to collaborate while developing your feature you can 
either send patches and tarballs, or I would recommend bzr or git.  They 
can pull from SVN, allow you to collaborate quickly, and they give back 
really nice patch sets very easily.  If it's a cool enough feature 
you're working on you may get a branch on the SVN server.

Well, I hope that helps.  That's a few things that I wish people told me 
when I first signed on board.

Welcome, and we look forward to being able to tag multiple recordings 
for true deletion.
 - Hendrixski


Bruce McKenzie wrote:
> I like the "playlist options" and the ability to tag multiple recordings so as 
> to delete them (say, when your sat box craps out). However, it appears that 
> the "Delete" is functionally equivalent to "Yes, Delete it" instead 
> of "Delete and allow re-record", which is what I usually want.
>
> I'd like to add this feature. Who do I ping?
>
> I don't see a Trac entry for this (as a bug or feature request). Should I 
> create one first?
>
> FWIW, I'm a developer so I expect to produce the code myself. What is the 
> review process?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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