[mythtv-users] The future of Mythbuntu ISOs

[Mark Perkins]

> On 24 Oct 2015, at 10:05 am, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:33 PM jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 01:32:41PM -0500, Ben Kamen wrote:
>> > On 2015-10-23 11:19 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote:
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>> > >Although there *was* a village in the late 1800s in western Russia that attempted to launch a blintz into orbit. Experts think the attempt had more to do with the effects of the nearby lead mine.
>> 
>>    Russians don't lauch blintzes, they launch blini.
>> 
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> First, I'd like to thank everyone for the responses. I didn't expect such a large amount of emails that I'd have to read through. I'll try to answer all the questions here, but please let me know if I missed any.
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> > What help would you need to continue with the ISO? What's involved in testing?
> 
> Anyone helping with testing needs to be able to
> Write good bug reports (I can explain if necessary)
> Be able to test without a clear set of instructions. In the past, we've had a fairly limited amount of testing we do on the ISOs. I'd like to get a more robust set of tests that someone can perform (or just test more installation options.
> Ideally, you would know a bit of Python, as that is what most of our software is written in, however anyone familiar with even the basic setup of MythTV or Ubuntu based installs should be able to help out in some form.
> 
> Testing itself doesn't need to be on bare metal (it can be in a VM), but at some point we'll need to test a scratch to fully setup and recording install (although this could easily be done in a VM was well)
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> Things we could use help on
> Testing new ISO installs (this is what we need to be able to continue doing ISOs). This also needs to test SystemD type things since that is new (to us) in 16.04.
> Testing upgrades from 14.04
> Testing of Mythbuntu control centre
> Testing of the Mythbuntu theme
> Our MythTV setup guide
> Fixing and/or Triaging bugs (basically working with bug submitters to ensure there is enough information available to actually work on the bug)
> Theming stuff including quality assurance. (Theming it's that difficult, however I don't use all the parts of MythTV so some things in the Mythbuntu theme are probably broken)
> Our ties are close with Ubuntu, so anything that someone does to assist us benefits Ubuntu users as well. 
> 

I can help out a bit. In particular:
- build to VM, occasional build to bare metal
- testing upgrades, mythbuntu-control-centre etc
- triaging bugs
- theming but like you I don't use a lot of areas
- should be able to write good bug reports, just let me know what you need
- don't know Python, but understand general coding concepts
- compared to most on this list, I'm only a novice user / recent user of *buntu but am moving my BE to CentOS (but want to move / keep my FE's on mythbuntu) - I guess any excuse to learn more
- Dont know systemd but willing to learn and no prior init religious belief.
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