Asterisk package maintainer needed?

[John Bright]

Thanks for the further info.

> Yes, there is still a need.
>
> An no, there might not be a steep learning curve, nor need for massive
> time - time will tell, and you are not signing a contract here, you are
> free to leave or be slow to respond or ask loads of questions.
>
> The main skills needed is ability to compose and apple patches, to
> locally build an already prepared Debian package (no need to know all
> the intricate details of the files below debian/* and no need to create
> Debian source packages from scratch!), and to install those local builds
> and test if the server works.
>
> The reason Asterisk was not included with current stable Debian was that
> the Debian release team noticed that it is popular and complex enough to
> get a steady flow of security bugs reported as CVEs, yet has too low
> activity on getting those CVEs addressed not only in unstable/testing
> (which is commonly done by updating to newer upstream release) but also
> in stable (which is not supported upstream and therefore requires us to
> dive in and compose a patch against our released code in stable.
>
> Does that make sense?  Does that scare you off, or are you game for
> looking at this more concretely?

Yes, that makes sense and I'm open to look at the next steps.

>
> We can continue chatting here on the mailinglist - perhaps others
> following along gets inspired to also chime in and help, when they see
> what the task consists of - because it is better to have a few more
> people than having "just enough" because we all have other interests too
> and might at any time be slow to respond.
>
> We can also (in parallel or instead) chat at the irc channel (dubbed as
> a Matrix channel) where the VoIP team hang out.  That might be more fun,
> depending on your style of conversation.  See details on that at
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/VoIP/
>

Either way is fine, though I'd probably need some pointers on the 
IRC/Matrix channel if you want to discuss more there.  Thanks!