[Serdev] Re: [Serusers] OpenSER release

[Greger V. Teigre]

Juha,
I can confirm that the experimental/tls has nothing to do with iptel and 
that Cesc's TLS work is based on the TLS code submitted some months ago to 
serdev by P. Griffith. I don't know any specifics about Iptel's plans for 
inclusion of TLS in the trunk. Also, I feel that is the way it should be: 
The experimental CVS module will now live a life outside iptel's 
dispositions and is open to anyone who have something to contribute and who 
are willing to commit to doing maintanance.

    How to resolve conflicts between experimental modules and iptel modules? 
There must obviously be some process for moving code from experimental to 
the main tree.  Jan has just commited a new CVS policy document, I quote 
from the section on Unrestricted CVS Access: "When considering giving anyone 
full write access, we will look at your code to see whether it is of general 
use, it should compile with the latest SER versions and you must be willing 
to maintain the code in the main tree (alternatively you could convince 
another developer to maintain the module for you)."
    I assume he means the core group when writing "we" here.  Experience 
will show whether some kind of voting in the community or other type of 
feedback process should influence the decision on whether an experimental 
module (or competing modules) should be promoted to the main CVS modules 
tree.  The TLS module will obviously be the first test case for this new 
approach to contributions.

g-)

Juha Heinanen wrote:
> Klaus Darilion writes:
>
>> There are people testing it and already fixing bugs. I remember a
>> person asking for help to create a cvs where he can extend the TLS
>> patch - and there was no response from the iptel guys. I also took
>> quite long to come up with the "contribs/experimental" directory -
>> which IMO is not very comfortable.
>
> i don't know what happened at iptel regarding tls.  more than a month
> ago i got private email from iptel saying that tls will be included
> officially is ser CVS.  this contribs/experimental thing cannot be it
> or if it is, i'm disappointed.
>
> -- juha
>
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