[asterisk-dev] Re: 'IAX2 call variable passing between servers '

[Douglas Garstang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Mountifield [mailto:tony at softins.clara.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 9:31 AM
> To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [asterisk-dev] Re: 'IAX2 call variable passing 
> between servers
> '
> 
> 
> In article 
> <645FEC31A18FE54A8721500CDD55A7B6035D09EE at mail.oneeighty.com>,
> Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
> > > From: Matt Riddell (NZ) [mailto:matt.riddell at sineapps.com]
> > > 
> > > If you spent half as much time reading up on coding as 
> you do typing
> > > your complaints, you could have easily solved the 
> situation by now.
> > > 
> > > You have 2 choices:
> > > 
> > > 1) Do the work yourself
> > > 2) Pay for someone to do it for you
> > 
> > No Matt. It's comical. This is exactly the type of 
> situation that IAX2
> > was designed for, and it doesn't do it very well. The very 
> fact that I
> > have to make modifications to the code to get IAX2 to work, 
> but not SIP
> > (yet), indicates IAX2 is falling far short of it's expectations.
> 
> What you're missing is that this is how open-source software works. It
> solves the problems that the people who wrote the code wanted 
> solved. If
> you need to solve other problems with it, you are at liberty 
> to add your
> solution and so enhance the codebase.
> 
> > I don't see how this is complaining. I am trying to solve a 
> problem, and
> > given the lack of documentation out there, this is one of 
> the few places
> > to turn. I can't understand why it is that whenever I ask 
> questions that
> > are due to limitations in Asterisk, it's called complaining.
> 
> Well you haven't quite got the hang of this diplomacy thing. 
> When you come
> across the need for a feature that hasn't YET been 
> implemented, you come
> onto the lists dissing Asterisk for all you are worth, 
> instead of calmly
> stating what you are trying to do and asking for ideas on how 
> you could
> enhance Asterisk to do it.
> 
> Asterisk now does vastly more than it did when I first 
> started using it
> over two years ago. In another year's time, it will do even more.
> Hopefully, some of those upcoming features will be a result of you
> enhancing Asterisk to fulfil your particular needs, and 
> submitting those
> enhancements. It's a two-way street.

Why is it assumed that anyone who uses Asterisk is a) a C programmer and b) wants to be a C programmer?