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

[mogorman]

or wait

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 11:46 -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Friday 04 August 2006 10:52, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> > On, Friday, August 04, 2006 at 9:31 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> > > 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?
> 
> Why is it assumed that we should pay you the slightest bit of deference
> if you're not willing to make the effort?
> 
> As Matt said earlier in this thread, you have two choices:  either code
> it yourself or pay someone to do it.
>