[mythtv-users] The future of Mythbuntu ISOs

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:48 AM Peter Bennett (cats22) <cats22 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On 10/29/2015 02:43 PM, Thomas Mashos wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:46 PM Larry Kennedy <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Thomas Mashos < <thomas at mashos.com>
>> thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>> 15.10 has just been released and the 16.04 LTS dev cycle is upon us, so
>>> it's that time again where the Mythbuntu team has work to do. However,
>>> being that our team is very small (1-3 semi-active members) and efforts to
>>> get more people involved have been unsuccessful we are entertaining the
>>> idea of not doing ISOs anymore.
>>>
>>
>> This would be a real shame.  Your step-by-step installation/configuration
>> of mythtv is the best I've seen anywhere.   I had not used Mythbuntu until
>> I picked up an ECS Liva, so to configure that as a frontend (to connect to
>> my existing EL6 backend), I used Mythbuntu, and I was very impressed.
>>
>>
>>> What this means for Mythbuntu devs
>>> * No work done on testing ISOs. We would still provide daily builds of
>>> the fixes and master repos.
>>>
>>> What this means for users
>>> * Current users would be able to upgrade as usual and the packaging
>>> updates will continue to happen.
>>> * New users will need to install Ubuntu server and then use apt to
>>> install the necessary packages for MythTV.
>>>
>>> Please let me know of any questions or comments you have (or offers to
>>> help).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Thomas Mashos
>>> Mythbuntu developer
>>> --
>>> Thomas Mashos
>>>
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>
> Again, I'd like to thank everyone here for the comments. I've contacted
> the two people that said they were willing to help (sorry Hika van den
> Hoven, we won't be moving from systemd to openrc).
>
> I'll be watching this thread a little less closely now, if anyone else
> wants to help feel free to email me directly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Mashos
> Mythbuntu Developer
> --
> Thomas Mashos
>
>
>
>
> Hi Thomas
>
> Count me in to help where I can. I have been updating the wiki over the
> past few months, the "User Manual". I am incorporating everything from the
> "official documentation" howto into the User Manual, with the hope that the
> official documentation can rather be release notes or a list of changes.
>
> Will the 16.04 release include mythtv 0.27 or 0.28?
>
> I can help with testing, updating the wiki, or other things.
>
> I believe it is worth while continuing mythbuntu, if only to increase
> exposure to MythTV.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Bennett
>

Hello Peter,

Sorry somehow I missed this email. In order to ship 0.28 (which I'd like to
do) we need upstream to release by (or be *really* close) feature freeze
(which is on Feb 18th.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule

I've got a separate email thread not on the mailing list of people that
want to help, so I'll add you to that list.

-- 
Thomas Mashos
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