[mythtv-users] [mythtv] BrowserBased setup

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday, November 24, 2010 02:50:45 pm Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> >> Please.  Pretty please.
> > 
> > Sorry if it's the wrong place, but I thought this was the place for
> > users to discuss problems and issues they have *from the user's
> > perspective*. That's why there is a user's list separate from the
> > dev list, or so I thought.
> 
> Heh, you are right-- gmail threaded the two together so for me, it
> still shows as on the dev list.  Mea culpa.

So we can blame Google? Isn't there some way we can blame Microsoft?

> 
> > The idea is not fully formed enough to warrant an official "feature
> > request", I just wanted to see if I was the only one for whom this
> > is an issue, and if there might be reasons why it's not practical
> > or desirable to implement.
> 
> Well, we don't really take feature requests regardless of the
> formedness, so that's not too big of an issue.  It would help if
> people let us actually get somewhere with the setup rewrite, though,
> as we are finally starting to get worked out exactly how to fit the
> pieces together, and moreover, how to apportion and manage the
> workload.  A lot of the discussion in this thread is between users,
> and that's fine, but understand that we have a pretty clear idea of
> what we want, what we're doing and while some of us are probably
> happy to clarify things, that we're not really soliciting input on
> how it should work at this time.  We're just barely getting to the
> tenuous point where we're on the same page about it, and although
> this might not make a lot of sense from a user perspective, we need
> to get some of this work done "while the iron is hot" if we're to
> succeed at it. I don't think we're looking to go back to the drawing
> board on this topic right now, or it risks not happening at all.

I'd think that the devs would have more problems with having to "plow 
through" tons of settings to change a single one than the users, since 
developers are more likely to be making changes to a system.

But the devs are in a better position to know what the priorities are 
for all the different issues. Users tend to spout off about whatever 
impinged on their consciousness in the last 10 minutes.

Remember that most, if not all, of the devs are users as well, and any 
really obvious problem for users will effect them as well, if not more 
so.

Or, do the devs have a "production" machine for the family to use and a 
"development" machine to tinker with?

Or, is the deepest secret about  MythTV the fact that the dev's families 
use Tivos?

And the shoemaker's kids are barefoot :-) 

> 
> > From the initial posting to this list, it appeared that this
> > discussion had been intentionally steered to this list. Am I wrong
> > in that?
> 
> You are correct, see above.

Understood. It's not like I have never made a similar mistake.