[Asterisk-bsd] Update on zaptel-bsd

[Richard Neese]

Last time I talked to digium about Asterisk+zaptel on bsd they said it was 
great we had ported it and it worked. But they would not support it. Asit is 
not on a linux platform that they support.

They say they  have neither the time or the resources. and that if infact 
patches where sent in they woul dhave no way to test and review them.

On Saturday 24 May 2008 04:10:10 Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote:
> 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 outdated.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.