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<blockquote data-quote="CyberSimian" data-source="post: 1299728" data-attributes="member: 141969">MP is a volunteer project. I would make these points:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">People with the necessary skills need to volunteer to spend their time improving and maintaining MP, all without pay. If no one volunteers, no improvements will be made, and no bugs will be fixed.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Volunteers spend their MP time on aspects of MP that interest them, not on adding missing functions that users would like, or fixing bugs that users have reported. This is the reality of volunteer projects.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many tens of thousands of users install and run MP without problem. So MP is not &quot;in ruins&quot;. But there is a small group of users who (for whatever reason) have difficulty installing or setting-up MP, and whose problems cannot be solved over the internet. These people have to look elsewhere for a media-center application.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">At some point MP may become &quot;stabilised&quot;, meaning that no more changes will be made. But MP will remain available, even though over the years (decades?) it will become progressively more out of date, and less able to address whatever way of viewing TV is then current.</li>
</ul>-- from CyberSimian in the UK</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CyberSimian, post: 1299728, member: 141969"] MP is a volunteer project. I would make these points: [LIST] [*]People with the necessary skills need to volunteer to spend their time improving and maintaining MP, all without pay. If no one volunteers, no improvements will be made, and no bugs will be fixed. [*]Volunteers spend their MP time on aspects of MP that interest them, not on adding missing functions that users would like, or fixing bugs that users have reported. This is the reality of volunteer projects. [*]Many tens of thousands of users install and run MP without problem. So MP is not "in ruins". But there is a small group of users who (for whatever reason) have difficulty installing or setting-up MP, and whose problems cannot be solved over the internet. These people have to look elsewhere for a media-center application. [*]At some point MP may become "stabilised", meaning that no more changes will be made. But MP will remain available, even though over the years (decades?) it will become progressively more out of date, and less able to address whatever way of viewing TV is then current. [/LIST] -- from CyberSimian in the UK [/QUOTE]

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