No Pull Requests are being merged

[mafrosis]

I came here to do a little bit of work on the Android app, but no pull requests have been merged for months. Is this project dead? There's not much point doing anything other than writing this todo list if nothing is being merged...

Things I was going to look at:

• Sometimes XBMC gets into a headspin of rapid clicks which aren't happening from my remote
• The remote spits outs exception after exception when the XBMC server is unavailable (mine switches itself off after two hours no use).
• Ant build scripts.. (which are actually done but unmerged over here!)

[kempeltemple]

I guess it's "only" been two months since the last merge, so maybe a bit soon to declare the project dead. Although it doesn't inspire confidence in would-be contributors like you and I...

edit: It also seems to me that this project is rapidly losing relevance when compared to "Yatse".

[tombriden]

If you guys want to make pull requests i'll test what i can and merge them in. freezy is the one who can release it onto the market though. If you jump on irc, freenode/#xbmc-android he's normally about so you can ask him there, i'm also always logged in but if i dont answer for a while (could be days) it's not because im ignoring you, i'm just not always checking irc!

Yatse is a good alternative but it isn't open source and i personally prefer this remote so i'm keen to have others help out, right now things are working fine for me and myself and freezy are busy with other things which is why it appears to be dead, but it's not :)

[kempeltemple]

I too would prefer to see the open-source official app be king of the hill! :-)

IRC... It's a looong time since I've been on there! Have to go and re-acquaint myself with it!

Thanks for the response.

[freezy]

I will push out another release soon. Just need to get it on all my devices, run through the usual tests, package it and upload it. Apologies for the delays, I'm really busy with other stuff at the moment.

[mafrosis]

Awesome response guys, thanks. Any chance you could get #74 merged? It's corresponding brother on xbmc-jsonrpclib-android has already been accepted.

[tombriden]

That doesn't need merging, the build.xml from that pull request is identical to the one already in the repo, and the proguard file is just comments so isn't even needed. To get ant building you just need to symlink (or copy) the jackson library into src from lib-src, on linux that would be

ln -s /path/to/android-xbmcremote/lib-src/org/codehaus/ /path/to/android-xbmcremote/src/org/

there's probably a way to configure that in ant to reference from its original location, but i'm not sure what that is