On 7/21/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/21/05, Geoff Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/21/05, Donavan Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Say I subscribe, and living in the US, the only reason I would is for > > the "voting" ability since I'm fine with the themes out there now > > (thanks Myxer!) and get the same program info for free. Anyway, > > what's to say the things I want to get funded... get funded? How does > > the list that we vote on get populated? Does LxM Suite decide on the > > ideas proposed and generate a short list? How much of my money goes > > into the "pay for dev" program? Surely it's not 100%, since LxM Suite > > is not a charity. > > There's a rundown of the planned system on their site. Basicly the > way it works is that each month subscribers get an allotment of bounty > points that they can use to vote on features (either for or against). > The features with the most points will have a bounty assigned to them > based on their number of points. The list of features available for > votes comes from subscriber suggestions, with the only limitation > being that it can't involve copyright / law violations. > I have not yet subscribed. I'm not yet sure if I will. I am seeing arguments both for and against it. However, while I've been hearing about it for a while, I've yet to see a post stating 'First Bounty Sponsored Upgrade Available!' or something similar. If people are subscribing, I assume that they are using their voting points. What aspects of development are currently being worked on due to bounty points being assigned, and when will these be completed.
I imagine that myself and others might be inclined to join up, if we actually saw some concrete benefits. > > I can't see paying for themes, there's so many out there. > > heh as an an author of a few of those themes I can say with some > confidence that the themes these guys are putting out are well beyond > anything that we've seen to date. There's just no way for us > non-artists to compete with the quality they can acheive with artists > and designers working on the themes. Heck I've spent countless hours > working on the new art for Minimalist and it still looks like a dog > turd next to treetogs work. I don't believe that nicer themes would constitute the 'concrete benefits' that I spoke of previously. Personally, I prefer function over fashion. I will happily navigate dog turds for a few minutes a day in order to spend a few hours watching programming that I enjoy on my own timetable. Hmmm... A dog turd theme... That might be perfect for those folks recording South Park and old Ren & Stimpy episodes. Maybe I'll develop a theme based on that idea. --Garry _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users