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

[Joseph Benden]

Hello all,

I am the author and maintainer of TDMoE-Multiframe.

[please do not read the following as an attack, but rather simple  
comments.]

The code did not have any major coding or quality issues, but rather  
had licensing issues because I had an old license on file and Digium  
switching to a newer license (which I was unaware of the change), I  
submitted the new license (which was approved) and now the code sits  
and rots in the tracker, along with the new DAHDI implementation of  
the driver.

This is not unusual around this part of the open source world. I've  
had other patches and contributions that have experienced the same fate.

I do deal (program, patch, etc.) with other open source software and  
do not have this much trouble in having the maintainers accept the  
code. I assume their projects are just as widespread (proftpd, clamav,  
freebsd), so using the number of outstanding patches as a reason for  
not accepting them is not convincing to me.

Because of the difficulties in having Asterisk accept the Solaris  
community (read as: accept high availability patches and Solaris/ 
OpenSolaris specific patches), I had to fork the project which then  
became SolarisVoip.com

I am trying to work towards updating SolarisVoip.com to 1.6 (including  
the DAHDI drivers), but am very hesitant. Would Digium finally agree  
to working with me in possibly having my yet-to-be patches for  
Solaris? How about a branch/module for the Solaris specific DAHDI  
drivers? I tried in the past at working with Digium, but was always  
pushed to the side and forgotten (even though some within Digium  
seemed happy to work with me.)

Comments, suggestions, or ideas welcomed!

Best Regards,
Joseph Benden

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On Oct 31, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:

> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
>> Bill Michaelson wrote:
>>
>>> ztd-ethmf.c
>>
>> As I said, that driver has been part of Zaptel, so could not have  
>> been
>> removed.
>
> Correction: it was in Zaptel SVN for a very short time, it had been
> committed without proper code review. It was removed quickly  
> thereafter,
> and was never part of an Zaptel release.
>
> -- 
> Kevin P. Fleming
> Director of Software Technologies
> Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM)
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