[mythtv-users] Mailing list and a Wiki... and a dessert topping

John Kuhn kuhn at razorsys.com
Tue May 18 14:23:06 EDT 2004


its a brand new site that is seeded for people with the knowledge to 
enter as they wish..

if you dont like it... dont use it.. its not offical.. look the other way..

thank you
--John

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>
> Why not just submit patches against the official doc?  You don't see a 
> section for all that random jape?  Then create one.  Make a new 
> appendix.  Make a new chapter about tuning your hardware.  Whatever. 
> This is how open-source software works.  YOU DON'T RUN OFF AND START 
> YOUR OWN THING when you don't think something is adequate.  You 
> improve what is there.
>
> I'm getting fed up, too.  But because nobody is listening to Isaac and 
> instead pining for a "wiki".  I'm with Isaac on this one.  Keep all 
> the information in one place.
>
> I've been trying to look through that Wiki that someone set up, and I 
> hate it.  Why is everything titled with NamesLikeThis ?  Can't it even 
> deal with spaces?  It's very randomly structured, and I certainly 
> don't see how it's useful.  Oh, and there's a Guides section, then a 
> HOWTO section.  What's the difference?  And I click on the first HOWTO 
> (Widescreen) and get a page about creating a new page.  I don't want 
> that!  I thought it said it was a HOWTO on getting Widescreen displays 
> to work right.  And there are sentences on that page like "To create 
> your own templates, add a page with a name matching the regex 
> "[a-z]Template$".  Huh?  Yeah, that's going to help a newbie figure 
> things out.  I'm sorry, but it all seems like a giant step backwards.
>
> I've been trying to work on a new chapter for the doc on customizing 
> themes, but threads like these just take away all my love for MythTV.
>
> /depressed
>
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