Re: [mh] MH5.1 + The Future

I'm also a long-time user of MH (2008), but lurk on the list picking up
the odd hint here or there.

I have sent in some code snippets (Squeezeplayer integration recently,
which I continue to tweak), but a fair amount of my code is very custom
and so not easy to describe or particularly useful if you don't have my
hardware.  Longer term, I would like to move to the MH Git branch, but
as John, it's too important to change without a lot of testing (no
heating, lighting... and important integrations that make all the
difference).  With the experience I can reliably maintain/improve my
environment without breakage - so yes maturity is in several ways a
reason for the limited traffic on this list.  For ref. I achieve around
"three nines" availability, and a lot of the "unavailability" is a
result of enforced OS updates, and I value availability highest next to
functionality.  Did I mention that MH never crashes or loses it's config ?

MH has a lot of strengths that are too easily ignored today.  No.1 of
course is Open Source and portability - Perl may be old, but it does
gradually improve from release to release and probably has the widest
range of library support out there due to longevity, and I doubt will
die before me.  A lot of new stuff comes and goes with fashion, tied to
vendor's aspirations (including Google who are actually one of the most
fickle - Wikipedia lists nearly 50 closed projects!  Google Plus anyone?). 

With an infrastructure that is 100% open source, nobody can entirely
obsolete it, though takeovers of Github and now Redhat threaten even
this) - having somewhat of a "prepper" attitude with your core system
isn't so bad an idea - I keep spare chips etc that may go obsolete. 
Your home infrastructure needs stability - tie yourself to (a limited
number of) vendors whims, worse "cloud" whims, and your investment in
time and money getting it "just right" with 3 9's reliability, may
disappear!  IA5 may be a bit dated, it does work acceptably on a 2018
Android and gets the job done, I'm sure IA7 would be better, but it's
testament to good initial design that MH/IA5 keeps on working though 3
major Linux migrations including a switch from 32 to 64 bit with barely
a tweak.  Actually later Perl versions showed pre-existing bugs in my
code, easily fixed.

So, a massive vote for MH, let's all continue improving it!

Richard

On 28/10/2018 00:04, john wrote:
> On another note, I’d be interested in the community’s perspective on
> the future of MH. It seems like there’s been a reduction in messages
> on the mailing lists, and not a big list of contributors submitting
> pull requests. I don’t know if this is due to the stability and
> maturity of MH, or if users are moving away to different directions.
> MH is definitely one of the oldest DIY HA products out there, but it
> seems like on-premise solutions are being more difficult to find.
>
>



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