2014-05-28, 03:24
Fritsch asked you to remove the add-ons to help isolate the issue and make the logs more readable. This is actually mentioned as generally good troubleshooting advice on the Troubleshooting (wiki) pages. It's not a rule, sure, but there's no rule that says the devs have to help anyone out, and it's generally a good idea to be corporative with someone who's willing to help you. It should be seen as no different than a dev asking someone to turn debugging on for the xbmc.log file.
I actually go out of my way to reproduce issues and provide logs using clean installs of XBMC by temp removing my XBMC and userdata settings folders, because I want to help the devs as much as I can. I want to eliminate the number of variables and make things easy to read and make it less likely for something important to be overlooked.
Super Repo has specific issues outside of piracy/bootleg content that can cause issues, due to the very open access it gives and how just about anyone can upload any add-on, without any real vetting or checking. Some specific bootleg add-ons (or even just the wizards or helper tools, which might not have any bootleg content at all) even do weird things like directly access the video DBs, or run extra services in the background, or try to use generic settings in the advancedsettings.xml file.
In short, I think this is a misunderstanding. It is true that some Team members are specifically annoyed by certain add-ons and the groups who make them, and sometimes I'm one of those people, but I don't think that's even a factor here.
I actually go out of my way to reproduce issues and provide logs using clean installs of XBMC by temp removing my XBMC and userdata settings folders, because I want to help the devs as much as I can. I want to eliminate the number of variables and make things easy to read and make it less likely for something important to be overlooked.
Super Repo has specific issues outside of piracy/bootleg content that can cause issues, due to the very open access it gives and how just about anyone can upload any add-on, without any real vetting or checking. Some specific bootleg add-ons (or even just the wizards or helper tools, which might not have any bootleg content at all) even do weird things like directly access the video DBs, or run extra services in the background, or try to use generic settings in the advancedsettings.xml file.
In short, I think this is a misunderstanding. It is true that some Team members are specifically annoyed by certain add-ons and the groups who make them, and sometimes I'm one of those people, but I don't think that's even a factor here.
