[Freeswitch-dev] New member

[Michael Jerris]

On Aug 21, 2009, at 8:42 AM, Michael Jerris wrote:

>
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Raimund Sacherer wrote:
>
>> Hello Freeswitch Developers,
>>
>> I work for an linux solution provider in spain and have lot's of
>> experience in developing for opensource software (freeradius) and
>> adminstration. We have quite a few clients with asterisk solutions  
>> and
>> some pretty cool projects in our queue but we have expierenced a lot
>> of problems with asterisk.
>>
>> After reading the freeswitch introduction from Anthony Minessale i at
>> once felt at home with freeswitch as the project seems to be what I
>> wanted from asterisk.
>>
>> As i am a very deep debian enthusiast I want to bring the debian
>> package into debian itself, which means bringing it policy compliant.
>> Which as one of the more problematic moves means:
>>
>> changing all directorys to be debian compliant.
>
> We decided so that it is possible to support many different  
> operating systems, we would make all our packages use the same path  
> structure like we do today.  To change it would add a burden on us  
> for support and we don't plan on doing that.

For more information on our approach check out:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES


http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic.txt
17.1.8. Installable applications

>
>> i really would love to do this officially as the debian maintainer  
>> for
>> the freeswitch project, i already sent the current packet builder an
>> email but I did not receive an answer until know.
>
> Feel free to toss patches at us via jira.freeswitch.org.  We need to  
> start getting everything in place for 1.0.5.
>
>> I hope we can work together and that i will be accepted into this
>> project which has in my oppinion a very bright future in the telecomm
>> business!
>
> Thanks.  Also, feel free to catch up with us on irc to discuss any  
> of these issues.