new helper proposal

Kilian Krause kilian at debian.org
Wed Jul 4 15:16:07 UTC 2007


Hi Fabio,

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:19:22PM +0200, Fabio Dive wrote:
> and I write from Italy, 30 years old.
> I am using Debian and asterisk based voip system since 2001,
> I can speak and write spanish and italian very well.
> I know how to use Asterisk system with AGI scripting in python
> or so simple c code.
> I use well mysql, network tools and linux system in production
> enviroment.
> I want to contribute to your project because one day I want
> to become a new developer and maintainer of debian packages.
> I can write some documentation, i can prepare html pages,
> review bug lists, prepare debian packages, I can write bash script
> and i know how to compile code and debug it and .... blah blah
> If you have got some idea how i can help you write me.

especially that "blah blah" sounds useful. ;)
Ok, just kidding. Reviewing the whole bug reports of asterisk and its
modules is a very good start. Then come up with patches and comment on
the bugs where needed. If you see that the package asterisk or any of
the other asterisk-* modules has problems that are not yet filed as a
bug, please propose a patch to this ML.

Writing Debian-specific documentation on asterisk has so far proven
pretty difficult, because its targets are too diverse for a unified and
well readable HOWTO. Nevertheless, if you've got a good installation
HOWTO that you see fit on pkg-voip.alioth.debian.org, please let us
know.

Beyond that, it has come up from time to time that users wish a
certain-scenario-installer-deb pulling all depends and fitting together
the configuration. Even though this may fall more into XORCOM and Rapid
domains, it may be worth discussing this in pkg-voip as well.

So, you see, from that list you gave, all items more or less apply and
you can choose at will. Most probably it's best to go through ML
archives and bug reports first. Then proceed to debugging the packaging
and eventually helping with porting BRI (read ISDN) to asterisk 1.4 and
later 1.6. While doing this, we should try to work with upstream to
ditch the numerous different approaches into a reasonable number where
possible. Yet this is not really something for Debian, but an evolution
we can support as a mediator between upstreams.

As always, if you've got questions, feel free to post them here. You may
also find some of us on IRC and ICQ/Jabber/MSN/AIM or using SIP. ;)

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian
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