east side meeting and asterisk stuff

[R P Herrold]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Geek Girl wrote:

> Lol it has noting to do with the spec file it has to do with 
> trixbox not being stable...

... but 'trixbox' is not asterisk;  in the #centos IRC channel 
on freenode, where I might be found daily, my lieutenants and 
I regularly are beseiged by refugees with the *BROKEN* 
downstream fork, of CentOS, called trixbox (and others too)

The problem was sufficently common that we have a whole wiki 
page devoted to the problem:
    http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver

Asterisk packagings are tricky as well, as most do not get 
along with the packaging system, but want to unroll and build 
tarballs as root (another *very bad idea*).  Mine do not share 
that defect, and will build as non-root, and run just fine.

> for example their 2.4 branch was pretty stable but now they released 2.6 and
> overwrote the 2.4 repositories and everything updates to 2.6. Plus 2.4 was
> still buggy...They are actually in the process of testing a nother revision
> this eve at trixbox but they are even skeptical of weather or not it is
> fixed.  Plus they they are known for hosing their repos regularly...

Then all you have done is confirmed that the trixbox 
developers cannot write an effective test plan, and cannot 
identify and fix regressions.  Or maintain repositories ;)

Seems to me this is a good reason not to use the particular 
product; or to get involved and displace the non-competents 
(if possible); or failing all that, fork and do it right 
(think: OpenPBX).  Brian Adams <?> at OpenPBX had me speak at 
their 'ClueCon' convention a couple years ago about CentOS and 
telephony, and the OS in use split about 50:50 between CentOS 
and Debian, from a show of hands;

- Russ herrold

links from prior email:

>> http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Rpm

>> ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/asterisk/