[asterisk-dev] Peer matching architecture

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 21 December 2009 10:22:01 am Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 21 dec 2009 kl. 07.23 skrev Tilghman Lesher:
> > On Monday 21 December 2009 06:35:27 am Nick Lewis wrote:
> >>> It's way more clean and much easier to explain.
> >>>
> >>> Feedback?
> >>
> >> Too scary - There is no need to panic anyone - the new peer types are in
> >> addition to the existing ones. Use of the new types will increase over
> >> time as the lists fill with "Q: I am having so and so problem connecting
> >> to my service provider" "A: This problem can be resolved by changing the
> >> setting type=peer to type=service"
> >>
> >> (Years down the line someone will notice that there are some strange
> >> peer types such as user/peer/friend littering the code in addition to
> >> the normal types. They will ask what these strange types are for. The
> >> grey haired will give a history lesson of chan_sip.c while the new blood
> >> will be busily deleting this crud)
> >
> > On the contrary, given past feedback, unless this code becomes
> > unmaintainable or we need to remove it for compatibility reasons, it will
> > stay in place.  We do NOT delete functionality just because we think
> > nobody is using it (because inevitably, we're wrong).
>
> Nick did not say anything about deleting, in fact he mentioned that they
> will still be around. He, like myself, hopes that they will be forgotten
> though.

Try again.

> >> The
> >> grey haired will give a history lesson of chan_sip.c while the new blood
> >> will be busily deleting this crud)

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Tilghman