[asterisk-biz] General development funding: discussion and survey

[Bill Michaelson]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Bill Michaelson wrote:
>   

> >And when I recently tried to use a redfone foneBRIDGE, a product that
> >can be regarded as competitive to Digium HW offerings, I discovered that
> >the process of building the driver was very cumbersome because the
> >required module was removed from the zaptel code repository by  the
> >maintainers of the repository.  I traced this back to some kind of an
> >apparent spat between the developer and the maintainers, nominally about
> >coding standards.  I viewed it through another lens, as do others
> >undoubtedly view suggestions by Digium that people should contribute to
> >a SW development fund.
>   
>
> That is incorrect. There was never any redfone driver in the Zaptel
> repository, so there was nothing to remove. The driver that is it based
> on is still there (even in DAHDI).
>   
Perhaps I am mistaken, or there is a semantic distinction. But I 
obtained the code required to support the foneBRIDGE from an old driver 
listing in a changelog, because the required module was not present, if 
I recall correctly. I believe the author was named Benden.
> I believe that redfone did submit their driver for inclusion into
> Zaptel, and that it was rejected for the reasons you mentioned (coding
> guidelines and code quality). We do not accept code that does not
> conform to at least reasonable standards of quality, because doing so
> would allow the code base to deteriorate and increase everyone else's
> support burden.
>
>   
That's a noble goal. Indeed, it was the rationale stated in the logs 
associated with the repository.

I can tell you that in this instance, the absence of readily available 
working code increased my support burden as well.



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