From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ee0-f44.google.com ([74.125.83.44]:42139 "EHLO mail-ee0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754893Ab3AJShI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:37:08 -0500 Received: by mail-ee0-f44.google.com with SMTP id l10so447733eei.17 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:37:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50EF0A4F.1000604@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:37:03 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manu Abraham CC: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Michael Krufky , Oliver Schinagl , Johannes Stezenbach , linux-media , jmccrohan@gmail.com, Christoph Pfister Subject: Re: [RFC] Initial scan files troubles and brainstorming References: <507FE752.6010409@schinagl.nl> <50D0E7A7.90002@schinagl.nl> <50EAA778.6000307@gmail.com> <50EAC41D.4040403@schinagl.nl> <20130108200149.GB408@linuxtv.org> <50ED3BBB.4040405@schinagl.nl> <20130109084143.5720a1d6@redhat.com> <20130109124158.50ddc834@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/10/2013 06:40 PM, Manu Abraham wrote: > On 1/9/13, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >> Em Wed, 9 Jan 2013 06:08:44 -0500 >> Michael Krufky escreveu: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab >>> wrote: >>>> Em Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:43:23 +0100 >>>> Oliver Schinagl escreveu: >>>> >>>>> On 08-01-13 21:01, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Oliver Schinagl wrote: >>>>>>> On 07-01-13 11:46, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>>>>>>> On 12/18/2012 11:01 PM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: >>>>>>>>> Unfortunatly, I have had zero replies. >>>>>>>> Hmm, it's sad there is a silence in this thread from linux-media >>>>>>>> guys :/. >>>>>>> In their defense, they are very very busy people ;) chatter on this >>>>>>> thread does bring it up however. >>>>>> This is such a nice thing to say :-) >>>>>> But it might be that Mauro thinks the dvb-apps maintainer should >>>>>> respond, but apparently there is no dvb-apps maintainer... >>>>>> Maybe you should ask Mauro directly to create an account for you >>>>>> to implement what you proposed. >>>>> Mauro is CC'ed and I'd ask of course for this (I kinda did) but who >>>>> decides what I suggested is a good idea? I personally obviously think >>>>> it >>>>> is ;) and even more so if dvb-apps are unmaintained. >>>>> >>>>> I guess the question now becomes 'who okay's this change? Who says >>>>> 'okay, lets do it this way. Once that is answered we can go from there >>>>> ;) >>>> >>>> If I understood it right, you want to split the scan files into a >>>> separate >>>> git tree and maintain it, right? >>>> >>>> I'm ok with that. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Mauro >>> >>> As a DVB maintainer, I am OK with this as well - It does indeed make >>> sense to separate the c code sources from the regional frequency >>> tables, and I'm sure we'll see much benefit from this change. >> >> Done. I created a tree for Oliver to maintain it and an account for him. >> I also created a new tree with just the DVB table commits to: >> http://git.linuxtv.org/dtv-scan-tables.git >> >> I kept there both szap and scan files, although maybe it makes sense to >> drop the szap table (channels-conf dir). It also makes sense to drop the >> tables from the dvb-apps tree, to avoid duplicated stuff, and to avoid > > Being one of the maintainers: > > I will keep the tables in the dvb-apps tree for the time being. That does not make sense at all -- why? Duplicated stuff always hurts. > Will decide to > drop the config files as needed from dvb-apps. It is necessary to keep a > copy of the config files for development purposes, rather than pulling from > different trees. What development purposes, could you be more specific? You can still use git submodules if really needed. But as it stands I do not see a reason for that at all... regards, -- js