Jason Tackaberry wrote: > On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 20:24 -0700, Michael Beal wrote: > >> Hello all! >> > > Hi Michael! Welcome to the list. > Welcome indeed! > > >> I'm new to Freevo development and have fixed a few things in version >> 1.5.3 in the last week. I'd like to share those fixes with everyone. >> > > Your efforts are definitely appreciated, and I will commit your fix > (slightly modified) to the 1.5 branch in svn. Unfortunately I'm not > sure if we plan on releasing a new version of 1.5. All of our current > attentions are focused on trunk, which is what will become freevo 2.0. > I was about to start a discussion on this anyway as a follow on to my last post. I think there maybe a case for a 1.5.5 or 1.6. This partly stems from a need, as mentioned before, to increase the visibility of the project and show users that freevo is still alive and kicking. Even though 2.0pre1 may be a long way off this would draw attention to the fact that freevo is still very much alive. From a practical point of view there have been a number of bug fixes submitted since 1.5.4. I haven't followed that branch but I've checked over my imap archive of the freevo lists to start compiling a list of these. If I forward this could someone check the svn archives to see if they were committed? I'd also take the opportunity to add a few features that would take minimal effort. These being; 1. Support for recording and watching live TV simultaneously. It's currently possible, just set your record device to /dev/video1 and your live TV device defaults to /dev/video. There might be a small code change needed for checking /var/cache/freevo/recording (right file? this is from memory) and an addition to local_conf.py to specify your available devices. 2. Limited support for timeshifting. I don't use this so maybe I'm way off but isn't it possible to use a PVR card with xine pvr:// to pause live TV. Did someone mention something similar with DVB and a #save option on xine too? 3. New default skin, give the release a fresh new look The mediaportal skin seems to be a favorite, ~1500 downloads from the addons page. I certainly like it. 4. Other small additions or inclusions of (stable) plugins. I think that cd ripping is still a plugin, there was a patch a while back and it certainly seems stable now, shouldn't this (and others?) be considered for inclusion in any 1.x release. Maybe people could submit small lists of their own for consideration.
<snip> >> let me know. I'll post the new mixer.py when I'm finished. >> > > I'd certainly like to encourage you to hack on Freevo 2.0 instead. The > barrier to entry is higher unfortunately, but it's where all current > development effort is being focused so you'll get more return on your > time investment. :) > > Cheers, > Jason. > > > That's the thing, I can't help with any of the real work for this and I don't know if Dischi or Jason or Rob want to put any more time into 1.x as the 2 branch is certainly where all real work is going on. But for what it's worth I think it could be a good idea, a week or two worth of work for an new release and then back to exclusive devel on v2. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
