Towards becoming a pkg-voip developer

[Lee A. Azzarello]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kilian Krause <kilian at debian.org>
>To: Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 5:22:56 PM GMT-0500
>Subject: Re: Towards becoming a pkg-voip developer

>Lee,

>Am Mittwoch, den 22.02.2006, 15:54 -0500 schrieb Lee A. Azzarello:
>> Hello. I've been lurking on this list for about a year now and was
>> doing some work with Asterisk and AMP on Debian but had to stop in the
>> middle of the project. I'm back on the project and I have been doing a
>> lot of sarge backporting and bugfixing the packages in the unstable
>> archive and Xorcom's APT repository. I have a feeling I'm not the only
>> one working on this and I would like to join the pkg-voip-maintainers
>> group. What would I need to do to contribute changes? Do I have to get
>> sponsored by an existing Debian developer?

>If you have worked on "backports", I honestly do wonder why your email
>address doesn't ring a bell at all in terms of pkg-voip-maintainers.

1) It's a new email address and
2) I'm not talking about backports.org work. Just backports I'm maintaining myself build from the sources in sid. I'm very much a beginner at the myriad Debian development paths. I've been sticking with sarge since it was released but time keeps on moving and I'm required to keep some PBX's up to date.

>For the Xorcom repository, if you have done good work there, probably
>Tzafrir can confirm this and give us a positive short briefing on the
>details. Yet, XORCOM is not Debian and may have its own targets and
>priorities.

Again, I'm working with the public sources on Xorcom's http server, making changes and putting them into my own repository. I would like to stop doing this and work with others if possible.

>So, a bit more to the point, what kind of "work" did you intend to help
>with?

Is "work" the wrong word? First off I would very much like to see the Xorcom amportal packages built with dpatch instead of using sed in a install script before the files are copied. Perhaps then they could be uploaded into sid?

>I myself do plan more automatic testing with the archive at
>http://pkg-voip.buildserver.net/ which shall become a fully automated
>autobuilder from SVN.

This is excellent! I didn't know of it's existance. The CVS section on Alioth is empty and doesn't refer to an Subversion repo.

-lee