I'm more-or-less the only one still maintaining a fork of the Mimic skin, and as it's still my favorite skin, and I've put a lot of work into getting it functional in matrix (as well as adding lots of features and customization to make it do things the way I like it) The original maintainer passed it off to someone else who had made a fork, and I forked from there, and that second person disappeared over a year ago, leaving me as the last maintainer standing.
I know there are a few other people out there still using it (from my repo), and I'd like to get it back into the official repo if possible.
Where would I find a list of "standards" that it should meet to qualify for re-inclusion? (Or is there such a thing?)
As it's gone though years of forks and maintenance, I suspect there's a good chunk of cruft in it, and probably there are better ways of doing some of the views. I've rewritten a number of them (drastically in some cases), but left other ones (the one's I don't personally tend to use) pretty much alone. I'd like to get some idea of what I'd need to update in it in order to get it approved to go back into the official repo.
I've also added in a handful of what I'd consider *very* unusual features, such as using different sets of genre icons for TV and Movies (including the ability for the user to point at their *own* directories to grab their own custom images), and a feature where I can use the actor+role to grab the actor images from a custom directory the user specifies (useful if you use thetvdb or tvmaze for grabbing your actor images), then you can have different images for a given actor based on their role in that show/movie). Both of those features involve letting the user specify a path outside kodi for the images. I'm not sure if something like that violates kodi skinning standards?
I've searched high and low, but have not been able to find a "standards" document to go by. I assume if I just submitted it out of the blue it would get a sound trashing for things that need to be cleaned up to meet the standards.
What would be the approach I should take?
I know there are a few other people out there still using it (from my repo), and I'd like to get it back into the official repo if possible.
Where would I find a list of "standards" that it should meet to qualify for re-inclusion? (Or is there such a thing?)
As it's gone though years of forks and maintenance, I suspect there's a good chunk of cruft in it, and probably there are better ways of doing some of the views. I've rewritten a number of them (drastically in some cases), but left other ones (the one's I don't personally tend to use) pretty much alone. I'd like to get some idea of what I'd need to update in it in order to get it approved to go back into the official repo.
I've also added in a handful of what I'd consider *very* unusual features, such as using different sets of genre icons for TV and Movies (including the ability for the user to point at their *own* directories to grab their own custom images), and a feature where I can use the actor+role to grab the actor images from a custom directory the user specifies (useful if you use thetvdb or tvmaze for grabbing your actor images), then you can have different images for a given actor based on their role in that show/movie). Both of those features involve letting the user specify a path outside kodi for the images. I'm not sure if something like that violates kodi skinning standards?
I've searched high and low, but have not been able to find a "standards" document to go by. I assume if I just submitted it out of the blue it would get a sound trashing for things that need to be cleaned up to meet the standards.
What would be the approach I should take?