[Asterisk-Dev] Features requests on bugs.digium.com

[Darren Nickerson]

"Brian West" <brian at bkw.org> wrote:

> Ok guys we work with mark daily and we know what will fly or not fly.

You are indeed all powerful and all knowing, and you have a keen sense of 
style too, I might add ;-)

> We talk on conf calls NIGHTLY and we communicate VERY fast on bugs and we 
> don't
> just close things out without talking about it.  If you all want to get
> involved join #asterisk-bugs and get the conf iax url we are usually 
> hanging
> out in there 4-8 hours a day between all of us we cover bugs and lots of
> random banter but we do discuss all the options and mark even comes in 
> from
> time to time.  (Hell we even had Allison in there one night)  And we'll be
> in there tonight over new years... maybe if you join you'll hear the story
> of where "moose penis" came from :P

I know this makes a lot of sense to you Brian, but it's not as 'open' of a 
process as you might think. Personally, I'm glad you can invest a lot of 
time 'in the clubhouse'. I'm sure you've formed a lot of very meaningful 
personal and professional relationships that will enrich your life with 
moose penis stories for many years to come, and the motivation you derive 
from that has led you to do great things with Asterisk for which we are all 
grateful. But the current model doesn't scale well ... there's a lot of very 
talented people out in the world who can't spent 4 hours of their day in an 
IAX teleconference, and forgive me but I've sat on the IRC channels you're 
talking about and the s/n isn't wonderful there either. I think the largest 
barrier to getting involved with what you're talking about is that it's 
somewhat of an all-or-nothing approach. If these discussions instead 
appeared in Mantis or on the -devel list, people could contribute as/when 
they are able, instead of devoting hours a day to a teleconference on top of 
their day job.

-d