On 22:12 Mon 22 Feb 2010, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > >> According to the wiki[1] these tools are without a maintainer. So, if > >> no one cares about them enough to make releases why merge them and > >> clutter up the git tree with dead code? > >> > >> [1] http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxTV_dvb-apps > > > > That's weird. I've recently added support for ISDB-T on it: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~mchehab/dvb-apps-isdbt2/ > > > > and we've got some comments at the mailing list. Btw, the patches > > I added there also adds DVB-S2 support to szap/scan, but tests > > are needed, since I don't have any satellite dish nowadays. > > > > That's said, if all the issues are the ones listed above, I can try > to address them on the next months, to put it into a better > shape. That's said, I don't think we should have a single maintainer > for it: there are too many DTV standards already, and probably > nobody with enough time has access to all of those (DVB-T, DVB-T2, > DVB-S, DVB-S2, ISDB-T, ISDB-S, ATSC, DSS, ...). So, I think we need > a team of volunteers that will try to help with the standards they > have access. I was not suggesting a single maintainer but I wanted to make sure there was actual interest in maintaing and fixing these dvb things. I don't interact much at all with DVB so all I had to go on was the wiki page. > That's said, I'm starting to agree with Hans: maybe the better seems > to merge it with v4l2-apps, to get synergy in terms, at least in > terms of packet management. > > Comments? Seems reasonable to me. I would be willing to be the merge point for all of the various maintainers of dvb and v4l things and release manager for making the actual tar.gz releases. I wrote up the conversion for dvb-apps too. The merge of the two trees conflict pretty trivially so it should be easy to clean up if we go this route: # unmerged: COPYING # unmerged: INSTALL # unmerged: Make.rules # unmerged: Makefile # unmerged: README # unmerged: lib/Makefile # unmerged: utils/Makefile If you want to give it a whirl. git clone git://ifup.org/philips/create-v4l-utils.git cd create-v4l-utils/ git checkout -b dvb-apps-too origin/dvb-apps-too ./convert.sh The result will be in step3 with the merge conflicts. Cheers, Brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
