[reSIProcate] The Future of nICEr

[Scott Godin]

Hi Adam,

This move makes sense to me.  I don't currently use nICEr in any projects
and if I need it in the future, I'm happy to get it from another location.

Thanks!

Scott

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Adam Roach <adam at nostrum.com> wrote:

> Resiprocate developers (cc: Resiprocate users, selected developers) --
>
> I'm writing this on behalf of the WebRTC implementation team at Mozilla.
>
> As many of you are probably aware, the Resip repository currently contains
> an ICE [1] library, called nICEr [2]. Several years ago, this library was
> pulled into Firefox as a component of our WebRTC implementation. Initial
> improvements and bug-fixes in nICEr were upstreamed from the Firefox
> repository into the Resiprocate repository on a periodic basis. The most
> recent such upstreaming was in April of 2015. Since that time, the nICEr
> implementation in Firefox has had many additional improvements and fixes
> [3].
>
> At the same time, we note that nICEr in the Resiprocate repo does not
> appear to build any longer on modern systems. As a consequence, upstreaming
> our changes would either require us to troubleshoot and fix the
> resiprocate/nICEr build system, or to blindly apply changes without the
> ability to test whether they work in the Resip codebase. We further
> conclude that the inability to build the version of nICEr in the Resip repo
> is a good indication that it is probably not being actively used or
> maintained in the Resiprocate project.
>
> Based on the foregoing: we’d like to officially re-home nICEr into the
> Firefox repository. This would involve (a) adding a build target for nICEr
> as a standalone library in the Firefox repository, and (b) removing the
> files from the resip nICEr directory and replacing them with a pointer to
> the Firefox repository.
>
> We would like feedback from the Resiprocate community on this proposed
> change before taking any actions towards such a move. If you have any input
> or information -- even if it is just "I don't use nICEr" -- that would be
> helpful. Please respond by Friday of next week (February 17) with comments,
> support, or objections; and use the resiprocate-devel list for this
> discussion.
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Adam Roach
> Resiprocate Developer, 2002-2010
> Mozilla Principal Engineer
>
> ___
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5245
> [2] https://github.com/resiprocate/nICEr
> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=13429770&ch
> field=resolution&chfieldfrom=2015-04-01&chfieldvalue=fixed&
> short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=ice&resolution=FIXED&chfieldto=
> Now&query_format=advanced&component=WebRTC%3A%20Networking&product=Core
>
>
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