Packaging a2billing

[Thomas Goirand]

Ron wrote:
> 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?

Not at all, I have enough work with my one bugs on my own projects, and
my packaging work in Debian! :)

> 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 ...

I agree, and this is my concern. But when I have a look in the track
website of the project, it seems that the upstream is still working on
the sources. So I don't really understand why I'm getting no answer.
Maybe I should try again later on, sometimes people have real life
issues and don't reply immediately, or leave the email behind thinking
they will reply a bit later, and never do at the end.

>> 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 ...  :)

Oh, I do not intend to push anyone, as to my experience, this often is
the beginning of never ending wars. It's just that I am stuck because
you guys are using SVN, and I don't feel good using it, and don't want
to invest the time learning... Never mind, I'll find my way.

About IRC: I quite hate it, because I live in Shanghai, and people are
never online on my timezone. It makes it very difficult for me to get
involved if most of the communication is there. Also, I enjoy lists and
the searchable archives / logs that are coming with them. Anyway, I'll
try to come over and discuss about stuffs still. IRC is a good way to
get new friends.

Thomas