[freeside-users] 1.7.3 release candidate 2

[Jeremy Davis]

> It *is* in 1.9 (RT 3.6), but "rgrep 'TimeUnits' ." in the entire 1.7.3
> (and 1.7.2) (RT 3.4) trees comes up with nothing outside of
> RT/I18N/de.po, so I'm kind of leaning toward some sort of bogosity
> specific to you on this...?
> 

Your right on this one, my bad.  My other developer tried to upgrade our lab
text box a month ago and failed.  I just found this out tonight.  Sorry for
the run around on that one.
 
> Index: svc_Common.pm

Will check this out tomorrow morning.


> Yeah.  The bug database is in our own Freeside+RT install with our
> customer info, and there's no strict separation between things
> like bugs, customer tickets, feature requests, etc.
> 
> Unfortunately it will take some work to expose the useful public parts
> of that, and I don't see where the time for that is going to come from
> anytime soon.  :(
> 
> I'm at a bit of a loss as to why the lack of public bug database would
> prevent you from contributing code and working together, unless you're
> just holding a grudge or something.  :(

I was holding a grudge.  I felt weird about not knowing what is broken.  I
was also 5 years younger and couldn't see reasons why contributing my code
would benefit not only myself but the project as a whole.  Now that I am no
longer a one man band and have resources I can devote some more time to
getting some of the code projects cleaned up and released back to the
project for the greater good.

> 
> I am going to do my best to *REALLY* release point releases at least
> every few months from now on, rather than the year-long delay between
> 1.7.2 and 1.7.3.

I've never used CVS and my code / hacks are a mess but I will check out
using CVS and my even be interested in maintaining a stable version of
freeside sometime in the future.

> Oh - I remember seeing a bunch of svc_broadband graphing stuff Matt
> Larsen showed me much more than a year back.  I guess that's something
> that's still too much of a one-customer hack, oh well.  :)

I don't remember the graphing, I remember writing some hacks to upload
bandwidth rules to StarOS boxes based on the svc_broadband up/down fields
and it was DEFINITELY the definition of a one customer hack :).  The only
graphing I can remember doing was a customer graph which graphed the number
of customers each day.  It used MRTG and was replaced by code in freeside if
I'm not mistaken.  I believe that is why I never upgraded it to use RRDTool,
something less ancient, or something that generates it on-the-fly.  I talk
to Matt all the time so I will ask him if there is something I forgot about.


Regardless, I have seen the error in my ways and will be looking forward to
releasing my code back into Freeside.



Sincerely,

Jeremy Davis
Maximum Technologies, LLC
Office 318.303.4725