Packaging a2billing

[Ron]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 07:04:48PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Looked at a2billing two years ago. Ran away screaming.
> 
> That was quite my reaction too. I have sent some emails to the upstream,
> telling about my feelings, but I didn't get any reply.

Is upstream still at all active on this?  Or are you proposing to
effectively fork it and take on the role of 'upstream' maintenance?

It sounds a bit like the latter is what someone needs to do if we
are to make this fit for the distro on a long term basis ...

> Side note (not so important, really): I don't know SVN, I jumped from
> CVS to Git, as I understood SVN is quite like CVS (which means: *bad*).
> Are you guys thinking about moving to Git? I quite don't want to learn
> SVN myself...

You are not alone in that feeling, even among people who have learned
SVN :)  but it's not quite a unanimously shared one yet.

I would say that if you are doing the work, and would work better if
you have it in git, then the choice is something of a no-brainer.
There is no technical reason stopping us from having both git and
svn repos under the pkg-voip group, and there seems to be good
practical reasons to have both (where some upstream already uses
one or the other).

This list is usually pretty quiet, most of the discussion goes on
in #debian-voip, and that's probably the best place to gently fan
the winds of change on this too ...  :)

Cheers,
Ron