[asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon 2014: Agenda item Deprecate AMI/AGI (Ben Klang)

[Paul Albrecht]

Not asking for unqualified promises about the future of Asterisk. Simply asking for an acknowledgment of the obvious, that is, Asterisk without the dial plan wouldn’t be Asterisk. The fact that one is not forthcoming raises a red flag with respect to the future of Asterisk. Furthermore, adding “asynchronous AGI”  and ARI/Stasis to Asterisk is similarly a cause for concern since it’s a complete break with the original Asterisk design. Since Asterisk is an open source community supported project, one would expect the consultants/developers pushing these changes would be willing to share their vision with the rest of the Asterisk community.

On Oct 27, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Paul Albrecht <palbrecht at glccom.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The reason the dial plan can never be deprecated is because Asterisk wouldn’t be Asterisk without the dial plan. Sure, you could re-engineer Asterisk so that it would be “better" for a small select group of users at the expense of the majority of community that use the product as designed for the purpose it was originally intended. However, you’re either very naive or delusional if you think the community is going to follow you down that path. Do you really believe the community is going simply chuck their dial plans and walk away from their investment in Asterisk? Not likely, dude.
> 
> My comment/question wasn't really about dial plans, per se.  My
> question was about you insisting that Digium make such unqualified
> promises about the future of Asterisk.  Even though Digium is a
> private company, I believe that they are still bound by U.S. laws
> regarding forward-looking statements[1].
> 
> So even if they wanted to (which I doubt), there's no way you're going
> to get the promise that you're looking for.
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-looking_statement
> 
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> Jeff Ollie
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