Flavio Goncalves wrote: > Patches, patches and patches, because Digium will not commit most of > them to the source code.
I disagree with this prediction. If we don't commit patches, it's not because we don't want to, it is simply an issue of resources. We have software team of about a dozen people, most of which are _completely_ dedicated to working on open source development for Asterisk. Can you name even _one_ other company that pays even _one_ developer to work full time on open source Asterisk development? In fact, handling community bug reports and community patches is what we spent about 90% of our time doing in 2007. The first issue submitted to bugs.digium.com in the year of 2007 was issue #8701. The last one submitted was issue # 11661. That means that 2960 issues were reported. That's an average of just under 250 new submissions every month. Also, there are currently about 350 issues open, which is pretty close to the number of open issues at the beginning of 2007, so we really did process that many issues in 2007. I would estimate that about 1/3 of the 2960 issues were community patch submissions. Then, about 95% of the remaining portion were bug reports that required development effort to debug and fix. The other few were closed without any commit for one reason or another (configuration issue, for example). So, "Digium will not commit most of them to the source code". Do you actually think that we have some intention to not serve the developer community? I know that a lot of this type of work isn't very visible, unless you really go looking in the svn commit history, or spend a lot of time on bugs.digium.com, but hopefully I have helped to point out that we actually do a good job at serving the development community. While we still have some things to improve on so that patch submission to commit turnaround is quicker, we are certainly working very hard at it, and committing _a lot_ of patches, already. -- Russell Bryant Senior Software Engineer Open Source Team Lead Digium, Inc. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
