[mythtvnz] Gnome3, Mythfrontend and xbmc

[Steve Hodge]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
> > On 30/04/14 16:27, Nick Rout wrote:
> >>
> >> The mythtv devs seem particularly disinterested in XBMC.
> >
> >
> > They have always been hostile towards any third party interface in my
> > experience.
>
> Yes it is a strange attitude for an open source project.
>
> They have somewhat ghettoised themselves with various features such as
> storage groups, myth protocol, etc.
>
> Great within the mythtv closed shop, but hard to get onto other
> platforms. The code appears to be the documentation, and it's
> offputting to devs.
>

My experience (and this was years ago) was that some of the core devs were
pretty abrasive personality-wise. They couldn't take any sort criticism or
dissent. It certainly put me off contributing and I'm sure I wasn't the
only one. I believe those guys are all gone now but it wouldn't surprise me
if there is still some influence from their attitudes in the dev culture of
the project.

Cheers,
Steve
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