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

[Thomas Sandford]

"Gil Kloepfer" <astr-bsd at kloepfer.org> 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.

All I can say is that I'm surprised by the lack of response to your bug 
reports. I've submitted a number of patches through the bug tracker over the 
years and have generally found the response to be very timely.

-- 
Thomas Sandford