[asterisk-dev] autoconf_and_menuselect branch

Sergey Kuznetsov asterisk_biz at deeptown.org
Wed Apr 19 10:23:06 MST 2006


Welcome to the Vanity Fair! =)


Andrey S. Pankov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I contacted directly Russel and Kevin, but with no luck :(
> I'm a bit lost in the situation...
>
> But I ask again: do somebody need _working_ autotools
> support in asterisk or not?
>
> Current branch code doesn't build at all on e.g. FreeBSD.
> It is not buildable on other systems as well. The only
> supported platform is Linux. Are you OK with that?
>
> There are lots of problems even in Linux support.
>
> Kevin, why do you close autoconf related bugs on the
> asterisk bugtracker and ask me to contact one of its
> developer directly, but when I contact you directly
> you wrote me about "following the rules"?
>
> Russel, do you need some help? It seems like you started
> ignoring my emails with suggestions. :(
>
> I fully understand that asterisk development process is
> controlled by Digium, but it would be nice making public
> the decisions on some points.
>
> I was kindly informed about architecural freeze on Friday
> last week, but as we can see it didn't happen.
>
> Closing reports on the bugtracker with "will never happen"
> is very informative. Let me ask why this will never happen.
> Why HTTP support should be in the core for example? Because
> this is Mark who made decision on this? Not sure here...
>
> Why trivial but useful changes need months of evaluation
> process? Is everybody comfortable with that?
>
> Let me stress again on the necessity of the roadmap for 1.4
> release. What chages are planned to be integrated? T.38
> passthrough support? Autotools support? We need to
> elaborate the must have list for 1.4 and it should not be
> released unless every item in the list is marked DONE.
>
> I'd ask the community not to be passive side in the process.
> Mark with at least +1 in the reply body that you've read
> this message and do read the -dev list from time to time.
>
> Awaiting for some feedback at least,
> faithfully yours,
> Andrey S Pankov a.k.a. casper
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