[Asterisk-bsd] Update on zaptel-bsd

[Oleksandr Tymoshenko]

Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 23/05/2008, at 8:38 AM, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> 
>>     OK, it's time to admit that our small team can't match
>> the pace of Digium's full-time developers and merge all patches
>> to zaptel-bsd sources in time. port and svn quite
>> outdated. I tried to update them several times but was distracted by
>> other things. The last time I decided to give a try to my old idea.
>> Porting process is quite routine and bsd-only chunks of code were
>> written a couple of years ago and hasn't been changed much since then.
>> So it was obvious to automate this process with some kind of script.
>> This script and its output could be found in -ng branch in zaptel- 
>> bsd svn.
>>
>> https://svn.pbxpress.com:1443/repos/zaptel-bsd/branches/ng/
> 
> That URL requires a password. Is there anonymous access to the  
> repository?
     Yeah, sorry, forgot to mention it:
login: svn
password: svn

> I spoke to Digium people (and specifically to Mark Spencer) at a  
> conference some time back and discussed the BSD community. They were  
> encouraging to the efforts. Would Digium accept your patches upstream  
> so they did not need to be maintained separately? Or do they not want  
> to take responsibility for testing each release on FreeBSD?
> 
> Or would Apple be interested in helping the maintenance if it  
> ultimately might lead to Asterisk support on Darwin?
     I haven't approached neither Digium nor Apple yet. What I have now is
not a set of patches but perl code that maps Linux KPI to FreeBSD's one
(where available), some compatibility layer and some logic tweaks that
required by FreeBSD (like device cloning to get per-open instance softc
struct). I'm not sure how far Digium is willing to go with it. It would
be great if there were OS-dependent (locking, module wrapper, etc..)
and OS-independent (logic, generic infrastructure operation) layers
in order to reduce amount of code that should be maintained by OS community.
It's my pipe dream for last three years :)

> Finally, this name change for zaptel that was announced: is it just a  
> name change, or is this a change in direction for the zaptel project?
     It's just svn branch. Project name is still zaptel-bsd.

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Sincerely,

Oleksandr Tymoshenko
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