[Users] Re: [Serusers] OpenSER release

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 06/14/05 20:39, Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:

>On Jun 14, 2005 at 20:10, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <bogdan at voice-system.ro> wrote:
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>>Hi SER community,
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>>there are almost two years from the last official SER release and things 
>>do not promise too much right now. Not only that the progress stuck 
>>somewhere on the way (rel 0.9.0 was started more than half a year ago), 
>>but even any attempt to push thing forward seems to be denied - I tried 
>>along with Daniel to push the release, but seems that not everybody 
>>shares our and comunity's interest regarding the public part of SER - 
>>upgrades were rolled back, new software contributions haven't found 
>>their way in (like TLS and other new modules), modules maintained by 
>>other developers are inaccessible.
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>The release is delayed due to lack of time.
>Current show stoppers were me reviewing the whole tcp code (after finding
>a minor bug) and some radius makefile problem.
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Well, that was the the main reason, the start for new release was 
announced on the 16th December, last year, a half an year ago. Some of 
us declared maintained code ready for release in about one month. Others 
had no time till now and they didn't announce any schedule, some of us 
volunteered to test and fix other's code, they did it and afterwards the 
code was reverted. The SER community was always confused in this period 
about the new release, what is the status, when is going to be ....

>Forking ser is a very bad ideea and your exposed reason are far from
>enough to motivate it.
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The fork will be only for the code which is not maintained by the 
developers from Voice System, when it is the case (a lot of modules are 
the same, but we cannot accept some other parts of code). Voice System 
developers will maintain own code from SER as they did it so far -- it 
is stated clear at http://www.openser.org . OpenSER will be an extra 
work to maintain for us. Maintainers of code modified by us can import 
it in their part, if they consider it good, there is no problem.

>Anyway anybody can cvs co -rrel_0_9_0 .
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>>Unfortunately this is not a good environment if we what to have some 
>>future progress for SER. And this is the main reason for starting a new 
>>project called OpenSER - http://www.openser.org .
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>>It's called open because its most important attribute is its opening to 
>>new ideas and contributions, fast developing and more involvement of the 
>>comunity. Along with quality, the progress is the main concern.
>>We will continue to support and develop the SER project as much as so 
>>far and as much as possible, but OpenSER will give the liberty for more.
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>ser just got an experimental module repository for new stuff that is not
>tested and/or not reviewed by a core developed (so that it can be added
> to the ser main repository).
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This is not a good solution always. Some parts which are mandatory in 
SIP RFC (TLS) should be accepted as soon as possible to get stable very 
soon. But it was suggested somehow on the mailing list that some of them 
will not be accepted easily, even if many community members requested.

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>>OpenSER serves the interest of all SER users and will not change its 
>>purpose - as a fact I have the pleasure to announce its first release - 
>>OpenSER 0.9.4. The web site offers a comprehensive listing of new 
>>features and fixes - http://www.openser.org/index.php#features. For 
>>people already familiar to SER 0.9.3, going to 
>>http://www.openser.org/diffs-0.9.0.php will be more helpful.
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>Some of the changes listed in the diffs will break compatibility with
>current ser configuration scripts.
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The script compatibility is kept. There were only fixes -- the main is 
the one that fix return 0 from script methods, which was a known bug, 
but somehow kept silent. Many methods rely on that behavior (e.g., 
t_newtran() for retransmissions) and the bug caused very hard to trace 
problems.

> I wonder also when have you tested
>all your changes.
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There is more than one month for most of the changes and we tested as 
much as possible, but no release will be bug free (even you discovered a 
bug of 0.8.14 a day ago). There is enough space for patch releases...

Daniel

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>Andrei
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