Re: [Xbmc-addons] plugin.video.attactv doesn't appear into Frodo/Gotham/Helix repositories.

Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:13:02 -0800

Hi Ronie,

Thanks a lot for the detailed explanations. Fortunately, all the people under Frodo that wanted to use the add-on and downloaded it by its days can continue to use it anyways under the same conditions (i.e. it's still running fine, but no more updates supported), so it has a minor impact after all :-) 

About the point of maintain a support thread along each add-on, that's something that I've done from the very first one, as I thought it's a best practice to provide some way of support them (interacting with the community), and it follows the add-ons recommendations for summit them to the official repo (not sure of it whether it's something mandatory, but it sounds to me I've read it somewhere into the wiki).

About the suggestion of other ways to let know the maintainers that some of their add-ons might be marked as broken, I agree with you that a good option would be the add-on website, but I realize that there's a long list of desired options into the features wish list for the add-ons website development (as for example the add-on statistics), so the broken section for the website would wait a little more as a minor question.

Just one thing to note: I've checked the mirror repository and the add-on is published under Gotham directory, but from the Kodi app I cannot get listed the add-on along the others. Maybe it's a sync problem (and just a matter of wait for a day or two until gets synced again), or is there something still pending to do?

Many thanks for all and best regards,

    jamontes.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Xbmc-addons] plugin.video.attactv doesn't appear into Frodo/Gotham/Helix repositories.
From: ronie <[email protected]>
To: José Antonio Montes <[email protected]>
CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:50:20 +0100
On 09-01-15 00:30, José Antonio Montes wrote:
Hi Ronie,

Thanks a lot for your help solving the problem so fast! It's a pity that due to this the add-on is no longer available under Frodo repo, but I understand that's the way it works, no problem with that.

By the way, is there any way for the developers/maintainers to be informed whenever some of our add-ons are broken?

I would like to fix any bug popped up in the future as soon as any of the add-ons I maintain suddenly appears as broken, if there is a way to be aware of that.

Usually, the two most common problems with add-on failures, once they became active and running fine for a while are: a website modification from where the add-on gets the info, or a dependency broken (for the same reason).

Running some unit testing from time to time helps to detect the first cause (the problem is to trigger the unit tests on a periodic basis ;-)), but the second one is harder to detect, as the unit tests cannot call the external dependencies in order to try reproduce the media from the popular CDNs to which the add-on dependency is made for.

If there is any  way from time to time to be warned with the broken add-ons (maybe there is something already into the forums or the wiki, that I honestly ignore), it would helps a lot to the maintainers community to keep the add-ons working as much time as possible, with the minimal impact for the add-ons they depends on (and the users that enjoy them :-)).

Of course, all of this is a personal thought as a suggestion to help prevent any add-on from be removed by accident in the future.

Once again, many thanks for all your help and time in fixing this.

Best regards,

    jamontes.


hi jamontes,

we are slowly closing down our frodo repo. first by removing anything that's broken, next by removing addons that already have been submitted to the gotham repo
and finally we'll move all remaining addons to gotham manually. in short, your addon was about the lose frodo support either way :-)

as for broken reports, you should open a support thread on our forum for your addon(s), if you have not done so already.
that gives your user the abillity to report issues there.

we're looking into other ways as well, there are some ideas to integrate some kind of broken reporting options into our addons website http://addons.xbmc.org/
so maybe in the future that'll be another option.


cheers,
ronie

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