FULLACK Carstenand Davide, On Sa, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:45:54 +0200, Carsten Koch wrote: > Davide Cavalca wrote: > ... > > I'm neither Klaus not a regular of this list, but I think you're not > > being fair here: Klaus has every right to say he won't develop on a > > community tree; it is, after all, his own free time. BTW, if I remember > > well, Klaus has coded several features (i.e. subtitles) he himself said > > he didn't use. > > Like it or not, VDR is a "cathedral"-style project: this has led to > > higher code quality and very good stability, at the expense of a slower > > development pace and the lack of some bleeding-edge features in the > > mainline. If you want those features, you can use a patch posted on this > > list (e.g. for hdtv, sourcecaps) or use a plugin (e.g. for teletext > > subtitles). Many distributions include those patches or provide a way > > for the user to easily appy them. Of course, you're also free to develop > > your own patches for new features: if they're good enough, I'm sure > > they'll eventually find their way into the mainline, as it happened, > > e.g., with the shutdown handling rewrite some time ago. > > > > You say you want to fork it: what would you accomplish with that? It's > > not as if the code would magically write itself. I've yet to see a > > single prospective developer say "if it were forked I'd write X". (And, > > BTW, there's nothing forbidding him to write X in form of a patch and > > post it on this list.) On the other hand, by forking you'd probably lose > > Klaus, who has written by himself the majority of VDR code and knows it > > like no one else. > > > > Finally, I personally fail to see why people switching to MythTV is a > > bad thing; VDR is not a religion, I think everyone should use whichever > > software he thinks suits best his needs. I'm very happy with VDR and > > won't be switching anytime soon. > > Davide, I have been following VDR development since June 2000 > and I have been subscribed to this list since January 2002. > > I could not have put it better than you did above. > I totally agree with everything you said. > > Carsten. > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr Halim Sahin E-Mail: halim.sahin (at) t-online.de _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
