I look forward to seeing anyone step up and work on getting patches upstream so we can have a productive conversation on this topic. On Sep 9, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com> wrote:
On 09/09/2013 07:12 AM, Michael Jerris wrote:
Thats correct, every time someone comes around suggesting we get package in the distro repos, I mention this needs to get done first and if someone wants to do the work on that then we can discuss what else is necessary to get packages upstream, and them everyone realizes its a lot of work and wanders off without offering to help, so it probably will never happen. I'm not sure it actually adds any value anyways.
Actually, it adds a huge amount of value. Just the security implications alone are a huge deal. I think the fact that asterisk being in the distribution is a pretty big hint.
The freeswitch user base would increase greatly which translates into more eyes on the code - which translates into more man power etc. etc.
I can give an example of this effect - kicad, a PCB layout package, entered Debian - with-in the year they had a multiplication of programmer man power. It has been a huge success.