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

[Jan Janak]

No, only 7 patches (as far as I can see) were not commited. Many of them
simply disappeared in the noise of the mailing lists, imho. Most of the
31 items were closed and I list them for sake of completeness.

  Jan.

On 16-06-2005 09:45, Giudice, Salvatore wrote:
> So 31 submitted patches/feature requests were basically ignored in the
> past year and a half? How can this situation be improved? Is there going
> to be a commitment to monitor this new ticketing system? How many
> patches and more feature requests will need to be reconciled 18 months
> from now?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Janak [mailto:jan at iptel.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:57 PM
> To: Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul
> Cc: serdev at lists.iptel.org; serusers at lists.iptel.org
> Subject: [Serusers] Re: [Serdev] openser/ser - avoiding forks
> 
> 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
> -------
> 
> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> 
> SERUSERS - 2004
> ---------------
> 
> 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
> -------------
> 
> 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
> ---------------
> 
> 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
> -------------
> 
> 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
> 
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