Asterisk 1.8.0 test package

[Faidon Liambotis]

Jean-Michel,

Besides what I wrote to Paul moments ago about joining Alioth etc., some 
more specific answers on your questions:

Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> Hmm... I checked out asterisk *trunk* this morning, but I didn't see that the
> 1.8 work was in another branch, sorry.

In our repositories “trunk” is intented for sid/unstable uploads. Right 
now, however, squeeze/testing is in a freeze and uploads to unstable are 
somewhat frozen as well (this makes updating testing a lot easier).

Hence Tzafrir, who wanted to play with the new upstream version, did the 
work on an experimental branch which may or may not endup in Debian's 
experimental suote.

> What repository are you talking about? I just checked packages.debian.org
> and the last version is 1.6.2.9-2.

I'm talking about pkg-voip's SVN. packages.d.o refers to the packages 
that are present in Debian's suites, which is something different from 
SVN. Typically, we prepare changes for some time in SVN and at some 
point we release (with tags et al) by uploading them to Debian. Uploads 
to Debian can only be done by Debian Developers, while commits to the 
repository can be done by anyone who has commit access, and that can 
include you :)

> I was thinking about a svn mailing list, but I see it already exists, as
> I'm reading this: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-voip/README?op=file

Right. May I also suggest you subscribing to the pkg-voip-commits 
mailing list to be up-to-date to the work that others are doing in our 
repos?

> There is so much information out there that it's easy to get lost. Specially
> when you only have a couple of hours here and there to contribute and then
> work piles up on your desk and it takes several months until you have free time
> again.
>
> So yes, we have to communicate more, and that's why I'm emailing this list and
> a few other people interested in Asterisk.

That's understandable and we (both Debian and pkg-voip) usually suck at 
communicating :) We're also doing things a bit different than Ubuntu for 
various reasons.

In any case, feel free to ask anything on the list, the IRC channel 
(#debian-voip on OFTC) or me personally if you need clarifications or 
help in general.

I'd be extremely happy if we can get some new blood on the team :)

Best regards,
Faidon