[mythtv-users] Why has no one implemented subtext commercial filtering?

Robert McNamara robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 19:14:56 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Allen Edwards
<allen.p.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Robert McNamara
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Why do all of your questions start with "Why hasn't anyone done 'x'
>>>> yet?" "X" is not done because this is a unpaid volunteer project with
>>>> thousands of users and about a dozen people actually doing any work.
>>>> We seem to have a surplus of "idea men" though...
>>> Now is that right for you to have such an attitude?
>>>
>>
>> This tends to get explained once a month or so, but there's a scale of
>> value of opinions.  It goes like this:
>>
>> Idea Men->New Myth users->Experienced Myth Users->Bug Reporters->Good
>> Bug Reporters->Patch contributors->Good patch
>> contributors->Developers.
>>
>> Where on a scale of 0 to 10, Idea men = 0, and Developer = 10.
>>
>> Is it right for me to have that opinion.  Well... yes, actually.  I'm
>> somewhere on the higher end of the scale and had to do the work to get
>> there, so yeah, I think my opinion should matter more.  :)
>>
>> Robert
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>
> However, we should encourage people to move up your ladder, right?
>
> Allen
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Of course!  (Good) Bug reports and (Good) patches are always a good
thing.  The best way to solicit those is to insist that if someone
wants their request implemented, that they do the implementing.  ;)

Robert


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