Bug#610811: Experimental branch: New upstream release: 1.8.2.2 plus trivial fixes

[Faidon Liambotis]

Jonas,

On 02/10/11 22:15, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> I am interested too in helping out with Asterisk, if relevant.
>
> I am hesitating stating this, however. Not becuase I am not interested -
> I am! - but because I do not want anyone (including Tzafrir) to feel I
> am bulldozing, and the way I work easily can be seen like that:
>
> * I will use Git (not Subversion)
> * I will use CDBS (not explicit lont-form debhelper like now,
> nor short-form dh as others might want to convert it to).
>
> If ok with that, I will quite happily engage in maintaining Asterisk,
> and also am happy working with others that are ok using that packaging
> style.

Switching to git has been a long-term goal of mine; never managed to 
actually do that, mostly because I cared about retaining the history.

Forcing CDBS, though, seems like a waste of resources and learned 
collective experience for a personal preference with no immediate gain 
-- not to mention that it'll severly limit the contributor base[1].

OTOH, it's not like we have a fleet of contributors, so if the others 
agree I'm really in no position to object.

My limited contributions and my offer to review though are off the table 
in such a switch; I really have limited time and learning how to use 
CDBS is more than I can handle. No hard feelings, though :)

Best regards,
Faidon

1: http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/dhstats.png