Hi Neels,
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 06:58:33PM +0100, Neels Hofmeyr wrote:
I fear that we are currently doing the same thing that we discourage everyone else from doing: keeping an important branch on the side and not upstreaming it. There is recurrent overhead on rebasing the branch.
I'm sorry it is that way, but the fact is that we have a large number of projects with ever-growing scope while the amount of contributors and developer resources (both inside and outside of sysmocom) is getting lower.
I think the reasoning for completing that codecs work and merging the branch is compelling. Can we somehow achieve that before OsmoMSC diverges further?
I think the main problem is that there is no automatic testing for the voice bearer / user plane, so we will not catch any regressions if merging a larger patchset/branch unless at least one, better multiple people sit down and manually test through the many permutations/situations of codec configurations and check if the audio works.
I could start maybe by holding a talk on it in an OsmoDevCall?
As readers of this list will have noticed, that OsmoDevCall has now been announced for this Friday. Looking forward to it!