asterisk-perl situtation

[Kilian Krause]

Faidon,

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 09:39:51AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Hello, again,
> Sorry for the flood of emails and sorry if I am being too intrusive in
> such a sort time :-) If you feel I'm annoying you, just say so.

on the contrary! I'm still itched to say "hey, there's still RC-bugs
open against pkg-voip, let's flatten them". ;)


> Tzafrir has been working on the Perl modules for Asterisk for quite some
> time.
> SVN had libasterisk-perl and now asterisk-perl.
> 
> Unfortunately, someone else (Rene Mayorga[1]) beat him to it and the
> package (called libasterisk-agi-perl but is the same thing) is already
> in unstable _and_ testing.
> Rene filled an ITP et al so we can't really blame him.

Let's ask him whether he wants to join it into pkg-voip or have us take
it from him?


> Moreover, the package was prepared by Tzafrir on November 2004 and has
> changelog entries on Jun 2005, Oct 2006, Aug 2007 but never got uploaded
> in Debian!
> 
> So:
> a) I'd like us to upload to Debian every package in SVN which is in a
> decent shape in Debian. They don't have to be perfect -release
> early/release often is a good practice IMHO- and our users can help us
> make them better.

Agreed!


> This situation was a loss for Tzafrir's time for all these years and was
> a loss for our users who only got the package on May 2007 and missed it
> in the etch release.


Matter-of-factly it may have been in the buildserver, I'm not sure.


> I began this effort before (regarding -addons, ari etc.) without even
> knowing about this!
> 
> b) Mark, Kilian: what do you think of inviting Rene to maintain his
> package on pkg-voip SVN?

If his packaging code is of decent quality, I'm perfectly agreed. (And
if not we can still help him to put it into shape). So, yes, let's ask
him.


> I'm kind of a "all under the same umbrella" guy but I'm not a team
> administrator or even a team member for more than a week :)

The idea of joining all VoIP related packs into pkg-voip is not new. Yet
there is some large code base and very few active members from what you
see on alioth who has r/w access. Thus inviting more makes only sense if
they really contibute actively. Otherwise we should ask him to hand over
and do it ourselves. He'd still be able to feed us patches, where he
sees fit.


> Note that Rene is not a Debian Developer and the upload of his package
> was done from Bart Martens, as gpg --verify shows.

Yes, who-uploads is great. ;)


> If not being a DD is not acceptable, is it possible to give him commit
> rights only in his package subdirectory for starters?

Not that I know of how. If you've got any idea how to do that
technically, I'm all ears. But for what I've found it's always the full
SVN or nothing.

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian
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