<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div>I'm replying to Don's post, but this is aimed not at any individual but to the
<br>list in general.</blockquote><div><br>Similarly, I'm replying to Stuart's post, but this is aimed at the list in general. I am responsible for the words "mythtv sucks" being in the subject, and there seems to be some misunderstanding about what I was saying.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>The devs are well aware of the faults, failings and limitations of mythtv. If
<br>we had the time many of these issues would have been addressed long ago</blockquote><div><br>[deletia ] <br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The problem isn't that MythTV has dozens of developers waiting for good ideas<br>to implement, it's the opposite, there are hundreds of ideas and tickets to<br>be worked on but only a handful of people willing or able to spend their time
<br>working on it. </blockquote><div><br>While I am certain this is generally true, if you go back to the beginning of this thread, you will find it is simply not the case in this instance. <br><br>Justin Hornsby, who *is* an active myth developer, although his work is distributed separately due to license preferences, suggested a change and volunteered to implement the change. Half a dozen people then responded in concurrence that a change was needed, and there was some debate about the what the exact change should be.
<br><br>Then Mike Dean joined in and said (grossly paraphrased for dramatic effect) "Everything is perfect the way it is, and no one has ever complained about this problem." <br> </div>Now, my point here isn't to pick on Mike, either. He communicates more with the user base than any other dev. I only wanted to point out that the shape of the overall debate had taken a familiar form: someone offered to help fix a problem and was given the old not-invented-here runaround.
<br><br>I don't necessarily want the core dev team to change the way they work: mythbackend is the preeminent piece of PVR scheduling/content management software. Features continue to be added before we even realize we want them. The frontend is the most feature rich remote control compatible frontend out there. It somehow manages to combine much of the slickness of FrontRow with much of the tweakability of mplayer. It could benefit from some more attention, though. The setup and configuration interfaces of mythtv are a travesty.
<br><br>My concern is that the weaker aspects of mythtv will continue be neglected because the devs will continue to discourage and resist anyone outside their group making changes that will affect the public's interaction with mythtv.
<br><br>All that said, I'll take it upon myself to improve the setup/config interface if I can get half a dozen people to agree with me on some portion of what I am saying. <br><br>-chris<br></div><br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 416 0648<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>