Debian VoIP Team

[Kilian Krause]

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Hi Arnad,

> > to be all maintained by the pkg-voip team. The advantage for the user i=
s
> > that the discussion about "is it a problem of the app, of the lib, of
> > the gateway/proxy" will be stopped.=20
>=20
> To be honest I'm reluctant to hand over co-maintainence to "you all".
> Perhaps on an individual basis however.  More importantly I've not had
> anyone ever report a problem with libosip and then have finger pointing
> occur.
>=20
> Perhaps I've not been listening but ...

well, i seem to have been fairly understandable. Let's try to put it
more cleary now. ;)

The target of our group is not to give up maintainership, but have the
maintainer-field (and thus the primary contact) set to the group. The
actual release is still prepared and done by the maintainer as is now
too. However the other team members can help testing, reviewing etc. if
needed.=20

The profit for the user is to see a sort of CI-style maintainer-group
that will handle all VoIP problems together. If there is a problem with
only one package alone, then it's handled by its internal maintainer as
is the case now. If there's an inter-connection problem with two or more
packages (or clients), then the pkg-voip can try to identify from all
angles where the cause of the problem is at and then fix it more
effectively than sending the user from one upstream to another or one
package to another. Maybe this has not been an issue with libosip, but
the actual VoIP clients are somewhat more fighting one another than
helping each other to extend user benefit.

This problem being identified, the idea of creating a joint forces
contact ml has been brought up together with the upstream of
GnomeMeeting and OpenH323/OPAL (resulting in
h323-select@lists.postincrement.com). We're currently working on getting
asterisk, bayonne, kphone etc. to also enter this mailinglist. (which
will most probably be voip@lists.voxgratia.org - i'll keep pkg-voip
posted as soon as there's news available)

Hope this makes more clear that you're not supposed to be loosing the
package and giving up all support for it. On the contrary, we'd like to
see especially input about issues you noticed with other packages to be
not fixed downstream in some package (and bitching about a broken
upstream elsewhere), but to ask the fix to happen where it's supposed to
be happening.

Hope this makes the intention more clear and understandable.=20

> The mailing list seems like an interesting idea, I'll probably lurk on
> it.

Welcome abord. ;)

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Best regards,
 Kilian

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