[asterisk-dev] Time to rename chan_gulp?

[Olle E. Johansson]

6 maj 2013 kl. 08:58 skrev Johann Steinwendtner <steinwendtner at gmx.net>:

>> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Matthew Jordan <mjordan at digium.com> wrote:
>>>> It's hard to use english language games in a product that's used world-wide. One has to be very careful with naming stuff that's going to be used in production.
>>>> We need to have a professional and serious attitude in our product. Naming something "gulp" is not going to help.
>>>> 
>>>> And "gulp" hasn't been in use outside development.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm all for name suggestions. We've stuck with 'gulp' mostly because we
>>> didn't have any other alternatives (and it is kinda clever).
>>> 
> 
> Can somebody tell me what this 'gulp' means (not technically, more from the name perspective) ?
> As a non english native speaker, I do not understand the cleverness.
> Google was not helpful and the dictionary did not give me something meaningful.

Which proves that you have to be careful with naming in an international market. And as Open Source,
we do work in an international market. The SIP stack is an important module in Asterisk and should
be easy to find and easy to understand.

/O