RFC: dtv-scan-tables: plans to upstream changes from Tvheadend.org

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Hello Mauro,

The Tvheadend project bundles dtv-scan-tables in our deb/rpm packages. We have
our own repo for them; an unmaintained fork of someone else’s unmaintained fork
of the upstream linuxtv repo https://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-tables.git.

To improve things for everyone we are planning to retool around the linuxtv.org
repo and would like to sync/upstream the differences to you. The current diff
can be seen here: 

https://github.com/chewitt/dtv-scan-tables/compare/master...tvheadend

The main challenges are, a) scrappy descriptions, b) contributor real-names and
email are missing from most of them, c) multiple contributors to the same files
over time.

I was thinking to send a series with one patch for each country-code to reduce
the number of patches to review, with links to original pull-requests in patch
descriptions to provide attribution to original changes, and any other info
like URLs added to files as comments if the links still work.

Moving forwards we plan to add a PR template to our GitHub repo that encourages
patches to be sent directly to the linux-media list; or for contributors to
provide us with real-name/email for attribution so we can upstream patches on
their behalf, or remain anonymous but give permission for patches to be sent
under Tvheadend attribution (likely as myself).

Would my per-country-code patch suggestion work for you? or how would you like
us to handle the changes?

Regards, Christian
chewitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

NB: The pending patch from Simon Liddicott [0] reduces the diff. Could that be
merged soon?

[0] https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/patch/20230216010528.5921-1-simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/







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