Talk:MythTV

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MythTV has become a very mature project. As of September 2006, the project was in a very usable state at version 0.20. Is very POV, I would suggested it be removed or changed to Some/many/Is commonly regard(ed) MythTV as a mature and stable project with a reference to back it up. New299 10:44, 15 October 2006 (UTC)


Why were relevant links, such as the link to "personal video recorder" among many others removed? --cprompt 18:08, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)

I tried to clarify what the plugins do, but can someone define what a "video manager" is/does? Johnh 04:40, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links purge

I removed a bunch of links, but this was reverted by User:NightMonkey. Since the reasons to remove them may not be obvious to some people but are long to state, I am listing them here:

This link is simply superfluous. There is already a link to the official site, which directly links to the Wiki.
  • #mythtv MythTV developers IRC channel. Exclusively for developer discussions
  • Bug tracker. Not for feature requests
These are specific to development.
This one is pretty superfluous per se, but is already linked indirectly from mythtvtalk.com anyway.
These are installation instructions.
This one is duplicated.
The content there is not specific to MythTV, but to HTPC. If it is pertinent, it should be linked from the HTPC article instead.
Development-specific stuff again.
Installation instructions again.

So, I'm rolling back to my last version and backporting NightMonkey's other changes.--Chealer 21:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Chealer. I agree with some of your removals (espcially if there are just plain duplicate links), but I don't agree with removing the links to installation instrauctions that are not "Official", and "developer" links and IRC channels. What if a developer not involved in the project comes to this page looking to get involved, or a user wants to see outstanding bugs, or even report a bug? Wikipedia isn't bound to only include "Official" links - we're not an extension of the MythTV project, and are not bound to only include information that is "sanctioned". Since they are useful to readers (of many kinds), I think they belong here. I think that the #mythtv-users channel should be added to the list, however. What do you think? --NightMonkey 02:13, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi NightMonkey. IMO, BTS-s should be a secondary resource for "end-users". If the software is so buggy that linking to its BTS directly from Wikipedia is a good idea, then it should be reconsidered whether the software deserves an article on Wikipedia at all. As for users wanting to report bugs, I consider that falls into the "developers" category. Developers that are looking to get involved in MythTV should simply not come to Wikipedia, but go to its website, which is already linked from here. As for removing links that are not "Official", I'm not sure why you're talking about that. If you look at the list of reasons I wrote to remove the links, you shouldn't find anything about links being official or not. And indeed, most of the remaining links are "Community" (which is probably a bad description). Finally, I considered removing the link to #mythtv-users, but preferred not to. I won't do it, but if you believe it should be done, I won't disagree with you, as it falls in the "user support" category, which shouldn't be done by Wikipedia. However, one reason I could see to disagree is that in case a major problem happens with mythtv.org, freenode should stay up and be a good place to ask what's going on.--Chealer 08:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi Chealer. In regards to buggy software not deserving an article on Wikipedia, I couldn't help but notice these two articles: Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. --Klestes 20:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
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