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Why is development stopped?

Open burekas7 opened this issue 5 years ago • 34 comments

Regarding to this message in version 0.1.45 :/

Development of *plugin.video.elementum* is stopped!
    - Do not expect any support, help and other things like that.
    - Source is open, so you can fork everything.

Can you tell us why? Anyway, I very appreciate all your efforts that you have done here. So thanks @elgatito And we hope you will reconsider it again.

If someone is going to make a fork please keep us updated.

burekas7 avatar Jan 11 '20 22:01 burekas7

If it’s true that Elementum is going to die... it’s very sad !! 😔😔 I really love this addon. It’s the best one of all of the addons.

zequi avatar Jan 12 '20 01:01 zequi

Why is development stopped? @burekas7 that is a strange question, since this plugin is developed in a free time, without any money paid.

I'm leaving this issue opened, if anyone wants to introduce own fork - feel free to post it here.

elgatito avatar Jan 12 '20 11:01 elgatito

@elgatito I know you have done everything in your free time and I very appreaicate that, and I'm sure that a lot of people who using it think the same. Just the timing is strange a little, and I don't have any complain, just curiosity. I remeber the time that you have started this project as a fork of quasar and have taken it few steps further. So I hope someone proffessional as you will take it or maybe you will make a comeback ;)

burekas7 avatar Jan 12 '20 13:01 burekas7

@elgatito so what's happened? Just say it, we can all understand. Cheers.

bam80 avatar Jan 12 '20 15:01 bam80

@bam80 nothing happened. I just don't want to spend my time and money for this project.

elgatito avatar Jan 12 '20 16:01 elgatito

@elgatito Do you have any plans to write some development guide? I understand that there was not development guide left in quasar repo so you had to learn how it works in a "hard way". But I guess "development guide" could give elementum second life.

Thank you again for your work and time.

antonsoroko avatar Jan 13 '20 14:01 antonsoroko

@elgatito so you played it enough.. Are you going to pass maintainer-ship of this repo to someone else maybe?

bam80 avatar Jan 13 '20 15:01 bam80

Thank you for all you have done! You have contributed a lot to Kodi's development and thanks to you, Kodi's fans are so much more! Good luck in your endeavors! Honor and respect from Bulgaria!

martinstz avatar Jan 13 '20 19:01 martinstz

@bam80 @antonsoroko I can help with some questions regarding how things work. But surely cannot teach development. Writing development documentation takes a lot of time, and it can be that it is not needed by anyone.

elgatito avatar Jan 14 '20 06:01 elgatito

A simple question, I think, I'm a week using elementum and it was working normally, to this day I just don't want to recognize torrent files, how do I solve it?

(use on androidtv ARM7 = arm)

(bug appeared after January update)

(on 64bit computer the elementum simply stops working and comes back, stopping streaming)

EcvAntonio avatar Jan 15 '20 12:01 EcvAntonio

I would recommend you downgrade to a previous version and disable updates until someone (if anybody) picks up elementum's development.

luispabon avatar Jan 15 '20 12:01 luispabon

@elgatito just to say thank you for all the hard work and I wish you the best on your future endeavors.

luispabon avatar Jan 15 '20 12:01 luispabon

@EcvAntonio Open a new issue for it (Include logs etc), and not here. And read again what he said: Do not expect any support, help and other things like that So until a new developer will take it, you will need to wait, unless @elgatito will give support from time to time.

burekas7 avatar Jan 15 '20 14:01 burekas7

Прямо аккурат с окончанием поддержки, trakt перестал строить списки "в топе" и "в тренде". Также не дает переавторизовать trakt под предлогом "Unable to get trakt code: 403". Так понимаю, что кина не будет. Жаль, что не получится устроить какую-нибудь стабильную версию. Все постепенно развалится само собой без поддержки, по крайней мере, что касается api trakt, структуры торрент сайтов и прочих динамических вещей, насколько я понимаю. И к черту эту имплементацию новых фишек, лишь бы сил и желания у Вас, elgatito, на "support from time to time" по особым случаям хватило. В любом случае, спасибо за труды. За пару лет получил истинное удовольствие и удобство при использовании. На свою голову подсадил десятка два пользователей, которым теперь еще придется объяснять, почему кина не будет. Без преувеличения, это трагедия для kodi пользователей, расстройство только начавшегося года.

pavelmxx avatar Jan 15 '20 17:01 pavelmxx

Прямо аккурат с окончанием поддержки, trakt перестал строить списки "в топе" и "в тренде". Также не дает переавторизовать trakt под предлогом "Unable to get trakt code: 403". Так понимаю, что кина не будет.

Это совпадение. В версии 0.1.47 Тракт снова работает и можно свой ключ прописать, при желании. Нужно пере-авторизовать Тракт.

elgatito avatar Jan 15 '20 18:01 elgatito

В версии 0.1.47 Тракт снова работает

Спасибо, помогло. У нас, оказывается, в стране surge.sh по ip заблочен теперь. Обновить удалось только вручную из скаченного zip.

pavelmxx avatar Jan 15 '20 19:01 pavelmxx

Una gran pena que se pare el desarrollo de este maravilloso complemento. Saludos @elgatito

roliverosc-zz avatar Jan 17 '20 18:01 roliverosc-zz

I agree, it’s is sad. Elementum has also become my very favorite (possibly exclusively used?) add-on to date. I’d never heard of it, until Gaia Repo introduced it to me.

On that note, the developer of Gaia has also said that he’s no longer developing on the current major version. Instead, he’s going to be focusing on his next major version release.

FYI folks, I have a feeling that we’re going to see this a lot. Over the years, we’ve been fortunate enough to have players, such as @elgatito , jumping into projects and running with them.

In short, having to redo everything from the ground up (ie: recoding everything for Python 3 compatibility) is pretty much starting from the beginning.

Maybe finding someone willing to help convert the code to Python 3 would be the motivating factor that we need 😉

splaquet avatar Jan 18 '20 15:01 splaquet

Its sad that you wont be supporting the addon, but I have to say thanks a thousand times, I used it a lot, I know how its to do something and not be paid for that

RH1CK avatar Jan 22 '20 22:01 RH1CK

Another to add a thank you. It's been a great addon and will continue to use it until it fully breaks. Thank you for your support!

hoshsadiq avatar Jan 23 '20 22:01 hoshsadiq

Another thank you too from me! I am using this addon since pulsar quasar. And this is like a flag race. Thanks for your fixes and new features!

BTopbas avatar Feb 01 '20 20:02 BTopbas

Anyone know what plugin to use now that support "Burst" plugin?

ETE-Design avatar Feb 02 '20 17:02 ETE-Design

You can still use elementum.... @ETE-Design

borekon avatar Apr 14 '20 22:04 borekon

Народ, может как-то деньгами скинуться для основного разработчика? Едрить-колотить. Я готов! \(◎o◎)/

DejavuDmitry avatar Apr 16 '20 18:04 DejavuDmitry

@DejavuDmitry http://elementum.surge.sh/donate/

antonsoroko avatar Apr 16 '20 20:04 antonsoroko

You can try Kodi Popcorn Time. It's smaller and not so fat, as it uses Python libraries to download torrents:

https://github.com/markop159/KODI-Popcorn-Time/blob/master/README.md

It's also somehow maintained still

giaur500 avatar Apr 26 '20 21:04 giaur500

Main disadvantage of every other torrent platform:https://github.com/markop159/KODI-Popcorn-Time/wiki/FAQ#does-it-downloads-the-whole-file-do-i-need-the-space-is-it-ever-deletedOn Apr 26, 2020 23:40, giaur500 [email protected] wrote: You can try Kodi Popcorn Time. It's smaller and not so fat, as it uses Python libraries to download torrents: https://github.com/markop159/KODI-Popcorn-Time/blob/master/README.md It's also somehow maintained still

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borekon avatar Apr 26 '20 22:04 borekon

Guys, keep working with Elementum, everything is ok for now. This is the best Kodi addon which have ever been made and it's still like this.

burekas7 avatar Apr 27 '20 00:04 burekas7

Sad to hear this. Sounds like the donation stream wasn't enough. At least this addon is not as server-dependent as others so it will probably still work for quite a while. At least I'm hoping so

Erudition avatar Aug 22 '20 06:08 Erudition

@elgatito btw, maybe something like https://www.bountysource.com/teams/plugin.video.quasar will encourage new developers to contribute to the project? (e.g. users will post bugs and put a reward for fixing bugs)

Just a thought (I accidentally discovered this).

(another interesting thing which could have helped in the past is https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository )

antonsoroko avatar Mar 08 '21 12:03 antonsoroko