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

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Friday 04 August 2006 11:41, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote:
> Personally my experience has sometimes been that it is the other way
> around. Even having seemingly perfect valid arguments does not convince
> people with hard opinions. And Asterisk developers seem to have very
> strong opinions. I am not saying these are wrong but if you are not part
> of the inner circle of developers it is hard to make yourself being
> heard.

This is very, very true.  Many very smart and talented people have had their 
code rot in the bug tracker for a long, long time.  I don't really have any 
solutions on hand, but I wanted to echo your sentiment that yes, unless you 
have the ear of one of the developers, it's damn near impossible to get some 
things addressed... even things that are very important to a large number of 
users.

The typical response that drives many to insanity is "use ${POOR_HACK} 
instead."  -- Now there isn't anything wrong with that inherently, but when 
the next question is "If I code up a fix, or get it coded, does it stand a 
chance of getting into the tree?" and the response is either "no" or 
silence... well that is when people stomp off and form FreePBX or any of the 
other forks.  Losing good people for no good reason is never a good thing.

-A.