Development -> Development

1.  Release policy

OpenSIPS release policy is designed in such a way to be open (everyone is involved), predictable and reliable (know what to expect) and transparent (to the whole community).

• Release interval
  • the release cycles is mainly time driven : a release each 5-7 months. Inside that intervals, what date will be is feature driven, depending on the required volume of work.
• Release Planning
  • open brainstorming on what the next release should contain.
  • compile a TODO list for the next release to fit the time frame; list may be dynamically updated.
  • estimating the release time (T) based on the volume of work (between 5-7 months)
  • actual work on implementing the items on TODO list ; docs must be realtime updated to reflect code changes
  • SVN freeze (no more additions) at T - 1 month ; SVN trunk code is copied in a new separate SVN branch
  • Release Candidate (or beta release)
  • testing, debugging during 1 month (or how long it takes) -> at T we have the General Available (GA) release (full stable release)

2.  Version Management

From maintenances point of, there are two types of releases.

• long term releases - will be supported for 2 years after it's release
• standard releases - will be supported up to the next release

The only difference is just for how long they are supported. The releasing process, stability and everything else is the same for all.

This model aims to maintain a decent balance between getting features out the door and supporting the existing release. People wanting new features can go for the standard releases, and those looking for stability and better support can stick with the long term support releases.

By supporting a version, we understand troubleshooting, fixing bugs, and backporting various new fixes from more recent OpenSIPS versions. Also, we will take care maintaining packages and tarballs for the supported releases.

Once an OpenSIPS release moves to unsupported status, it will not get any new bug fixes, any packaging or new tarballs.

3.  OpenSIPS 2.0 version releases

• First code release of OpenSIPS 2.0 is available for public. Take a look at the new design overview and also see the stage1 available features and how to download it.

4.  Developers hierarchy

To ensure the quality and technical competence across the project, the development work is governed by developer knowledge.
OpenSIPS project implements several layers of technical competence - the development hierarchy:

1. core developers - developers taking care of OpenSIPS core, of the overall architecture and design
2. module developers - developers taking care of a OpenSIPS module (or modules). They are module maintainers. For work expending across their modules they need to address to other module developers (for other modules) or to core developers (for core or global matters)
3. tool maintainers - developers not involved in OpenSIPS core or modules, but in surrounding tools and utilities (control tool, DB scripts, utilities, etc)
4. contributors - developers randomly contributing to OpenSIPS by providing patches (for fixes or new features). For how this works, see Contributing page.
5. packagers - people taking care of OpenSIPSpackaging (for different OS's) ; they are in-charge with maintaining the specs and preparing packages.

5.  Module maintainers

1. acc - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
2. alias_db - commonly maintained
3. auth - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
4. auth_db - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
5. auth_diameter - unmaintained
6. auth_radius - commonly maintained
7. avpops - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
8. avp_radius - commonly maintained
9. benchmark - Bastian Friedrich
10. call_control - Dan Pascu
11. carrierroute - commonly maintained
12. cfgutils - commonly maintained
13. closeddial - Sergio Gutierrez
14. cpl-c - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
15. db_berkeley - Will Quan
16. db_flatstore - commonly maintained
17. db_mysql - commonly maintained
18. db_oracle - commonly maintained
19. db_postgres - Greg Fausak
20. db_text - commonly maintained
21. db_unixodbc - commonly maintained
22. dialog - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu , Ovidiu Sas
23. dialplan - Anca Vamanu
24. dispatcher - commonly maintained
25. diversion - commonly maintained
26. domain - commonly maintained
27. domainpolicy - commonly maintained
28. drouting - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
29. enum - commonly maintained
30. exec - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
31. gflags - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
32. group - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
33. group_radius - commonly maintained
34. h350 - Christian Schlatter
35. identity - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
36. imc - Anca Vamanu
37. jabber - Anca Vamanu
38. lcr - commonly maintained
39. ldap - Christian Schlatter
40. load_balancer - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
41. localcache - Anca Vamanu
42. mangler - unmaintained
43. maxfwd - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
44. mediaproxy - Dan Pascu
45. mi_datagram - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
46. mi_fifo - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
47. mi_xmlrpc - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
48. mmgeoip - Kobi Eshun
49. msilo - commonly maintained
50. nathelper - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu , Maxim Sobolev
51. nat_traversal - Dan Pascu
52. options - commonly maintained
53. osp - Di-Shi Sun, Dmitry Isakbayev
54. path - commonly maintained
55. pdt - commonly maintained
56. peering - commonly maintained
57. perl - Bastian Friedrich
58. perlvdb - Bastian Friedrich
59. permissions - commonly maintained
60. pike - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
61. presence - Anca Vamanu
62. presence_dialoginfo - Anca Vamanu
63. presence_mwi - Anca Vamanu
64. presence_xcapdiff - Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
65. presence_xml - Anca Vamanu
66. pua - Anca Vamanu
67. pua_bla - Anca Vamanu
68. pua_dialoginfo - Anca Vamanu
69. pua_mi - Anca Vamanu
70. pua_usrloc - Anca Vamanu
71. pua_xmpp - Anca Vamanu
72. qos - Ovidiu Sas
73. ratelimit - Ovidiu Sas
74. regex - Iñaki Baz Castillo
75. registrar - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
76. rls - Anca Vamanu
77. rr - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
78. seas - Andrei Pisau
79. signaling - Anca Vamanu
80. siptrace - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
81. sl - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
82. sms - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
83. snmpstats - Jeffrey Magder
84. speeddial - commonly maintained
85. sst - Ron Winacott
86. statistics - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
87. textops - commonly maintained
88. tlsops - commonly maintained
89. tm - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
90. uac - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
91. uac_redirect - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
92. uri - commonly maintained
93. uri_db - Sergio Gutierrez
94. uri_radius - commonly maintained
95. userblacklist - commonly maintained
96. usrloc - Bogdan-Andrei Iancu
97. xcap_client - Anca Vamanu
98. xlog - commonly maintained
99. xmpp - Anca Vamanu