[mythtv-users] www.mythtv.org updates

[Steve Baker]

Hi,

not sure if -users or -dev is the right spot, but will float it here first.

The www.mythtv.org site is very, very static. We are days (hours? :-P) 
away from a major new release, and the last update on the main page is 
from May 2005. As someone who is actively watching the message boards, 
downloading and deploying the SVN versions, and actively using Mythtv, I 
know mythtv is going stronger than ever - and that its a very exciting 
time. To the casual observer or shopping around for the right PVR 
solution however, the front page does not communicate this buzz, or that 
any progress is occurring at all. It would be great to have more regular 
updates, and see a bit more information on the main page as to what is 
going on behind the scenes - and potentially get a few more people 
excited and involved in the mythtv experience. Two proposals;

1) With the sheer volume of messages we see on the mailing lists, having 
a few brief lines once every week summarizing what is going on - i.e. 
new features committed into SVN for the next version, the feature list 
for 0.19 that is nearing completion, and links to interesting or 
insightful threads. Shouldn't be too much of a burden, as pretty much 
all the text could be copy-pasted from existing posts, however the 
mathematical equation (some work > no work) holds true.

2) I'm willing to knock out a PHP script that pulls from the main 
sources of info and generates a "status box" that shows the main bits of 
info about the SVN versions and discussion boards.I'm envisaging 
something like http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/roadmap combined with a post 
count for -dev, -users and -commits (# of posts in the last hr, day, 
week, month.....) Not quite as informative as the first option, but a 
fire and forget option that requires no ongoing effort.

Naturally, both of these can be done - or, if everyone is happy with the 
current situation, nothing needs to change. Let me know what you think.

Cheers,

Steve Baker.