Need help with asterisk?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Bernhard Schmidt (2016-10-08 15:07:33)
> I saw that asterisk is currently not in testing and the latest upload 
> to unstable 40 days ago didn't even build on any architecture. Do you 
> need any help packaging asterisk?
>
> I like freeswitch better myself, but my employer is using Asterisk as 
> PBX and I would be in need of an Asterisk 13 anyway (for pjsip).
>
> I'm not sure how much I can help to fix #816042 though, since that bug 
> has been filed even more largely unhandled security problems have been 
> found.

Help would indeed be much appreciated!

It seems we are currently effectively 2 maintainers involved with 
Asterisk, none of us able to catch up with the work needed for that 
package: Tzafrir understands the code and packaging structure best, but 
can silent for long stretches of time.  I can juggle patches and 
packaging but not write C code, and also am bad¹ at being in 
dialogue with the release team.

Best would be if you can try look into squashing security-related bugs 
in stable and oldstable.  Or I could could prepare that and you can take 
the dialogue with the release team to get permission for releasing it.

You can also familiarize yourself with the way packaging is done, and 
try update to newer upstream release.  But then please experiment 
locally only at first, without pushing your changes without coordinating 
first: I have an update in the works, not yet pushed because of issues I 
haven't solved yet.  You might very well do a better hob than me - if we 
are multiple persons interested in updating upstream code then let's 
*both* share here on the list before pushing that.

How does that sound?  Did you have another appreach in mind?

NB! If not already subscribed to the list then please do. :-)


 - Jonas

¹ Often I get lost in release team procedures and logics.  Not throwing 
blame here, I just personally find it unintuitive and easily get 
frustrated about that.

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