Request for cmaj to be added as DD for asterisk

[Chris Maj]

May I, account cmaj, a current Debian Contributor, be added to
pkg-voip-team at Salsa ?

My NM profile: https://nm.debian.org/person/cmaj/

Looking forward to elaborating more next week!

My DebConf25 talk:
https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/147-preseed-your-pbx-for-fun-and-profit/

Thank you Geert and team :-)

Kind regards,

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On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM Geert Stappers <stappers at debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 01:51:46AM -0600, Chris Maj via
> Pkg-voip-maintainers wrote:
> > Howdy!
>
> Hi,
>
> Hello Chris,
> Hello pkg-voip-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org,
>
>
> > I write from this address as a follow-up to emails some months ago about
> > contributing to Asterisk on Trixie. Please consider the patches applied
> to
> > my forked repo, specifically in the "trixie" branch, from where I am
> > sourcing for building and signing asterisk debs that work on trixie.
> (This
> > builds on previous work in my "bookworm-backports" branch.)
> >
> >
> https://salsa.debian.org/cmaj/asterisk/-/compare/debian%2Flatest...trixie?from_project_id=9
> >
> > Big thanks to Jonas for improving the gbp build situation back in
> January.
> > My procedure was very much in line with steps in asterisk/debian/gbp.conf
> > -- along with a few helpers from Jonas' email reply to Martin posted
> around
> > the same time as the gbp improvements:
> >
> >
> https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-voip-maintainers/2025-January/039158.html
> >
> > Futher, my "trixie" branch also resolves QA concerns regarding an old
> IMAP
> > library by removing IMAP from the Asterisk voicemail backends (leaving
> ODBC
> > and filesystem voicemail backends in-tact):
> >
> > https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=asterisk
> >
> > I do not believe that there are any further technical or security reasons
> > preventing Asterisk from being included in Trixie.
> >
> > Finally, I commit to continuing to maintain the asterisk packages for the
> > foreseeable future -- with help from the many volunteers who've offered
> to
> > help over the past year or so on this list, as well as the upstream
> > developers -- and kindly request y'alls support to close Bug #1031046
> (next
> > email :-)
>
>
> OK.
>
>
> However I didn't see a match between message body
> and 'Subject: Re: Request for cmaj to be added as DD for asterisk'
>
> So this email is for finding what is being asked    :-)
>
> One question could be "Can I, account cmaj, be added to pkg-voip-team at
> Salsa?"
>
> I think that is a valid question from Chris with current response form
> URL
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-voip-team/asterisk/-/project_members?search=cmaj
>
> My hopes are that there will be a Debian style answer like "done!".
> When such "cmaj added to pkg-voip-team" comes along is unknown.
> @Chris: feel free to sent "ping" or a more verbose eqivalent when needed.
>
>
> And it could be the question is "Make me, Chris Maj, Debian Developer".
> That would be a realy good question. The **start** of the answer is
> at https://www.debian.org/devel/join/index.en.html
>
> The request could be "Allow me, Chris Maj, to upload asterisk packages".
> That is documented at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
>
>
> Maybe I should not guess what Chris is requesting
> and allow Chris to elaborate on his post.
>
>
> > Kind regards,
> > Chris Maj
>
>
> Regards
> Geert Stappers
> In an attempt to enable others ....
> --
> Silence is hard to parse
>
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