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<blockquote data-quote="frenzy" data-source="post: 366774" data-attributes="member: 73633"><p>Personally I think that the workload that MP developers are putting out there is tremendous. And the community is an important part of the project. Yes there are bugs and yes there are different ways the team could go about but this is the reality of MP and this reality is one both the end-users and the testers have come to appreciate. Take for example the OP. He's never had a stable release and still he's here trying to make the project better by contributing with what he/she thinks is a good solution to what he/she thinks is a problem. </p><p></p><p>However, one should draw boundaries as to where his MP installation will go and what it will do. I've seen many people on the forums here trying to make MP work with skins and plugins that are either not supported any more or not working stably from the beginning. Others go through the installation skipping all the reading required and come to the forums for questions that could have been answered in the wiki. The first year I used MP -migrating from MythTV (mythdora 3.0)- I didn't change a thing in the basic installation and MP didn't crash once as far as I can remember. Sure I comprimised my viewing experience, sure I missed out on functionality (that WAS available) but I gained in stability. After the first year I installed a couple of plugins, which increased with time. I still use the blue3 skin as I know that I'm not ready to go to another adventure by changing skins and hoping their developers will keep them up to date.</p><p></p><p>Now about the SVN builds: Yes they fix the bugs, but some of them don't apply to everyone. More than half of the issues described in the changelog for 1.01 are such problems. And some of the rest would not be discovered by an end user. So if you're installing SVN build after SVN build then you're not an end user; you are a tester. And this is fine because you make the software better for the rest of us. But be self-conscious about it. </p><p></p><p>And to close, about the comparison of MP an open-source project to another open-source project, Firefox. Really, apples and oranges. The money that go into Firefox compared to MP is like comparing a glass of water to the Atlantic ocean. On the other hand take the Catalyst drivers. Lots of money, lots of experience, large user base but still , <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frenzy, post: 366774, member: 73633"] Personally I think that the workload that MP developers are putting out there is tremendous. And the community is an important part of the project. Yes there are bugs and yes there are different ways the team could go about but this is the reality of MP and this reality is one both the end-users and the testers have come to appreciate. Take for example the OP. He's never had a stable release and still he's here trying to make the project better by contributing with what he/she thinks is a good solution to what he/she thinks is a problem. However, one should draw boundaries as to where his MP installation will go and what it will do. I've seen many people on the forums here trying to make MP work with skins and plugins that are either not supported any more or not working stably from the beginning. Others go through the installation skipping all the reading required and come to the forums for questions that could have been answered in the wiki. The first year I used MP -migrating from MythTV (mythdora 3.0)- I didn't change a thing in the basic installation and MP didn't crash once as far as I can remember. Sure I comprimised my viewing experience, sure I missed out on functionality (that WAS available) but I gained in stability. After the first year I installed a couple of plugins, which increased with time. I still use the blue3 skin as I know that I'm not ready to go to another adventure by changing skins and hoping their developers will keep them up to date. Now about the SVN builds: Yes they fix the bugs, but some of them don't apply to everyone. More than half of the issues described in the changelog for 1.01 are such problems. And some of the rest would not be discovered by an end user. So if you're installing SVN build after SVN build then you're not an end user; you are a tester. And this is fine because you make the software better for the rest of us. But be self-conscious about it. And to close, about the comparison of MP an open-source project to another open-source project, Firefox. Really, apples and oranges. The money that go into Firefox compared to MP is like comparing a glass of water to the Atlantic ocean. On the other hand take the Catalyst drivers. Lots of money, lots of experience, large user base but still , :S [/QUOTE]
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