[mythtv-users] www.mythtv.org updates

[Dylan R. Semler]

Steve Baker wrote:

>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.
>  
>
I would definitely like to see more activity on the website.  I have 
also wondered for a while why there is no link to the wiki from the main 
site.  Without subscribing to this list and hearing people talk about 
it, I wouldn't know that it exists or where to find it.  Even typing in 
"mythtv wiki" to the firefox address bar takes you to an old (i think) 
wiki for mythtv which is very less active and useful than the 
mythtv.org/wiki/index.php site.  Like Steve mentioned, these 
discrepancies really do give the impression that there is not really 
much activity going on at all with this project.

Dylan