Support downloading Youtube videos via tube.majestyc.net

[rbrito]

A user requested (in Debian's bug tracking system) that support for
tube.majestyc.net, a frontend for Youtube with accessibility functions
(and other support for other assistive technologies), be added.

This patch adds support for this.

Signed-off-by: Rogério Brito rbrito@ime.usp.br

[rbrito]

Please, ignore this for the moment being. It seems that I broke the regex.

[rbrito]

I believe that I fixed the regexp now.

[rbrito]

@FiloSottile, @rg3, @rg3 Ping.

I hope that youtube-dl is not dead. I would offer some of my time to help keep it alive.

[rg3]

Well, everybody knows I'm not maintaining youtube-dl personally anymore (#136). If any of the current maintainers feels having trouble doing the "job", please do not be shy and do not hesitate to contact me about stepping down. I'm pretty sure someone else will be willing to do it. If @rbrito should have write access to the repository, please speak up. :)

[FiloSottile]

@rg3 cc: @rbrito
Hello Ricardo!
I have been a bit absent last two weeks or so, but it is only a temporary matter and I will surely put some time in this project for the foreseeable future. The fact is that even if I got write access (Yay!) I was never told what my role in the project is. So far I only pushed trivial patches and made PRs for everything else, but now there are a couple of them waiting in line and @phihag seems busy.
Just tell me if I should/can start maintaining the project more actively :), maybe leaving release.sh to @phihag only.

[rbrito]

Hi, @rg3.

On Sep 25 2012, Ricardo Garcia wrote:

Well, everybody knows I'm not maintaining youtube-dl personally anymore
(#136).

OK, sorry to have missed that. I just thought that you had reduced your
involvement a lot, but not stopped completely. :)

If any of the current maintainers feels having trouble doing the "job",
please do not be shy and do not hesitate to contact me about stepping
down.

AFAIK, @phihag was (is?) working on his thesis and that left @FiloSottile
indicated that he doesn't feel comfortable committing things to the main
youtube-dl repo.

This effectively makes the project stalled, while there are a lot of
contributors sending reasonable pull requests (some of which I have started
reviewing).

Just a non-technical, psychological side: contributors (not talking about
me, but other people starting to contribute) start to get frustrated if they
don't get any feedback (even if it along the lines of "please, change this
and that and we will merge it") and their patches start to bitrot.

Especially after a big change---as the necessary, but quite invasive
modularization of the code---arrives and makes patches that were already
reasonable stop applying.

I'm pretty sure someone else will be willing to do it. If @rbrito should
have write access to the repository, please speak up. :)

I am available, as I have to package it for Debian anyway, and I use
youtube-dl every single day, many times a day.

Regards,

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[rbrito]

Hi, @rg3, @phihag, @FiloSottile and others.

On Sep 25 2012, Filippo Valsorda wrote:

I have been a bit absent last two weeks or so, but it is only a temporary
matter and I will surely put some time in this project for the foreseeable
future.

Great.

The fact is that even if I got write access (Yay!) I was never told what
my role in the project is.

Great that you also thought about not stepping onto other toes.

So far I only pushed trivial patches and made PRs for everything else, but
now there are a couple of them waiting in line and @phihag seems busy.

Indeed, things are starting to accumulate.

Just tell me if I should/can start maintaining the project more actively
:), maybe leaving release.sh to @phihag only.

Even though I am not one of the persons with write access to the repository,
I think that a new release tag after some basic testing and sorting out the
issues already filed should be a primary goal.

A new release also serves the purpose of, like, "sending a heartbeat" to the
users, indicating that the project is alive and strong.

Regards,

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[FiloSottile]

Totally right. Now, it seems to me that we should only wait for some directions from @rg3.
I will start merging a good master on my fork, to push eventually to rg3/master, to speed up times. Bugs are starting to look angry ;)

Also, people look confused A LOT by our current version number (like 8 months old).

[phihag]

I've finished my thesis, but am still quite busy with follow-up papers. I'll try to squeeze in more time and will release a new version this weekend.

[rbrito]

@phihag Danke schön!

[rbrito]

Hi, @rg3.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ricardo Garcia wrote:

If @rbrito should have write access to the repository, please speak up. :)

I have thought a bit about this for this last day and I think that I
can be of help here if I had write access, if @phihag and @FiloSottile
don't mind.

Regards,

Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA
http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog : Projects : https://github.com/rbrito/
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br

[rg3]

Well, I read mail about youtube-dl issues from time to time and voice my
opinion here and there but feel free to ignore it or not as you see fit.
Basically, I don't look at the code much (I only take a peek from time
to time), and I only use the program occasionally. I was never an
intense user of it myself, except for a period before I learned to fix
the "blue-faces" problem with the flash plugin. So everything is
technically up to the current official maintainers.

Felipe, as far as I know Philipp is a bit bussy right now and he'd be
happy if you contributed more directly in the mean time, so feel free to
be more active if you have time.