[Asterisk-bsd] Kim Culhan's FreeBSD 6.0 STABLE asterisk install notes

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Uhohhh Uhmmm Game ON!!!  : ) Tell ya what, if someone says theyll commit
it, if we agree to maintain it, you game to help create a new updated
port ? 

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 22:19 -0600, Gil Kloepfer wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:25:17PM -0500, William Lloyd wrote:
> > You could contribute to update the port.  It doesn;t happen magically.
> 
> I realize this is a little off topic but I couldn't help but respond
> to this.
> 
> I have submitted three items to FreeBSD -- two are NIS-related bugfixes
> (kern/26486, bin/64445) and one is an enhancement to atacontrol
> (complete with the manpage update, bin/81692).  They've been completely
> ignored.  The NIS-related problems were critical to the FreeBSD systems
> I've deployed where I work.
> 
> I guess the bottom line is that to do work that seems to go into a
> black hole is not much of a motivator to do more.  I was actually
> considering redoing the Asterisk port so that there were options
> that could be selected (and end up in /var/db/ports) that make it
> so that ALL of Asterisk doesn't need to be built (and, thus, doesn't
> need prerequisites for things I will never use).  It just didn't
> seem to be worth the effort.
> 
> I have been a FreeBSD evangelist for over 10 years.  Unfortunately
> these kinds of experiences may change that feeling.
> 
> ---
> Gil Kloepfer
> astr-bsd at kloepfer.org
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