[Serusers] Re: [Serdev] openser/ser - avoiding forks

[Jan Janak]

Hello,

I am trying to reconcile patches and improvement suggestions that have been 
left unanswered on the mailing lists. I went through serusers and serdev
mailing list archives from the beginning of 2004 till now.

I was mainly focusing on submitted patches and non-trivial feature requests.
Below is a list of issues that I was able to find in the mailing list archives.
Given the number of messages that were sent to the lists in the last year
I am pretty sure that the list below will miss many suggestions.

If you submitted a patch or improvement and it was neither accepted nor rejected,
and it is still relevant, please resubmit your proposal to serdev at lists.iptel.org 
mailing list or (preferably) create an issue in the bug tracking system at:

http://bugs.sip-router.org

Please re-submit also improvements sent in individual messages to developers.

Summary
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When it comes to accepting improvements, there surely is space for improvements
but the situation, in my opinion, is not as bad as it may seem from the recent
discussions. Properly reported bugs get usualy fixed quickly. The more detailed
description the faster the fix, so I think there are no big problems with that.

The list at the end of this message contains patches and feature requests that
I was able to find in the archives. From the list the following issues have
not yet been closed:

1, 4, 7, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 

And from those only  1, 4, 18, 21, 22, 25, 31 contained patches that have 
been left unanswered. That 7 patches which still need to be processed.

The following patches have in my opinion low importance:

  1  - date header in REGISTER replies
  18 - radius fix for acc
  21 - check_to for digest credentials without database

The following patches can be classified as important:
  
   4 - AVP support in acc
  22 - transactional auth replies
  25 - Free TLS
  31 - Xten improvements of pa

In addition to that there are the following improvement suggestions which
did not contain any patches: 7, 19, 23, 24

So I was able to find 4 important and 3 less important patches that were not
integrated in the last 1.5 year from the 31 items below. Also I created issues 
in the bug tracking system for all items below that are not yet closed.

The winner among them in terms of e-mail volume is free TLS, of course.

  Jan.

PS: Code back-porting is another issue and is not covered here.

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SERUSERS - 2004
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1)
   Date Header in REGISTER responses
   Feature request by TeleSIP, I have a patch for that already from
   Robert Sanders which will be integrated
   Status: OPEN
   Bug: SER-30

2) PA interoperability with RTC, patch submitted by Klaus Darilion,
   integrated by Jamey HICKS
   Status: CLOSED

3) branch=0 problem reported on 16 Jul 2004, closed by Jiri
   as "not a bug"
   Status: CLOSED

4) AVP patch for acc module, submitted by Ramona on 31 Oct 2004
   Status: OPEN
   Bug: SER-31


SERDEV - 2004
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5)
  Video - related patch for nathelper, integrated by Maxim 
  Status: CLOSED

6)
  fix_nated_contact for nathelper (replied by Maxim)
  Status: CLOSED

7)
  16 Apr 2004
  Juha proposed adding npdi and pstn URI parameters (no patches)
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-32

8)
  Maxim submitted patch adding PIDs of all processes into the pid
  file, resolved by another means
  Status: CLOSED

9)
  20 Apr. 2004
  Alexander Mayhofer submitted patch for rtpproxy, commited by Maxim
  Status: CLOSED

10)
  Test for realm in auth_radius too tight, reported by Cesar
  Hernandez, fixed by Jan
  Status: CLOSED

11)
  23 Apr 2004
  Multicast support patch, commited by Andrei
  Status: CLOSED

12)
  24 Apr 2004
  Postgres patch by Alexander Mayhofer, in CVS
  Status: CLOSED

13)
   max_expires patch submitted by Jamey Hicks, in CVS
  Status: CLOSED

14)
  start/stop commands fro SEMS into serctl by Klaus Darilion, rejected.
  Status: CLOSED

15)
  30 Jun 2004
  User agent support in xlog module by Alexander Mayhofer, in cvs
  Status: CLOSED

16)
  7 Jul 2004
  Patch for configurable user agent string by Maxim, resolved by other
  means
  Status: CLOSED

17)
  21 Jul 2004
  Patch for storing user agent string in location table, commited by
  Maxim
  Status: CLOSED

18)
  21 Jul 2004
  Radius-related patch for acc module
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-33

19)
  2 Oct 2004
  Escaped uri characters are not interpreted properly, no patch
  Status: DEFERED
  Bug: SER-34

20)
  27 Oct 2004
  Mysql_ping patch by Dan Pascu, in cvs
  Status: CLOSED

21)
  10 Nov 2004
  uri_db patch to make it possible to use check_to and check_from
  without database (submitted by Marian Dumitru).
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-35
 
22)
  25 Dec 2004
  Maxim's patch to make it possible send transactional replies from
  authentication modules 
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-36

23)
  Additional header fields requested by Juha (server, refer-to)
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-37


SERUSERS - 2005
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24)
  feature request route("string")
  Status: DEFERED
  Bug: SER-38

25)
  Free TLS
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-39

26)
  19 Apr 2005
  branch=0 in ACK problem, rejected by Jiri
  Status: CLOSED

27)
  20 Apr 2005
  mysql_ping patch for 0.8.14, not important enough to be commited
  to 0.8.14
  Status: CLOSED

28)
  Backport of radius auth changes from unstable to stable, rejected
  Status: CLOSED


SERDEV - 2005
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29)
  Transaction replies in auth modules (by Maxim)
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-36

30)
  NAT support in usrloc and registrar, partially done
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-40

31)
  RFC3265,RFC3903 support in pa, I could not find the patch
  Status: OPEN
  Bug: SER-41