[asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's

[John Novack]

I, for one, didn't take his comment as anything other than constructive
Lack of documentation is an issue, open source or not.
It is an unfortunate situation that many very smart coders understand 
what they have created, but are unwilling or unable to supply enough 
information for many others to make effective use of their creation
How many have struggled through the years with uncommented or poorly 
commented code when the original creator is off to greener pastures?

JMO

John Novack


Moises Silva wrote:
> Douglas. Please take this as a constructive comment. I have followed
> your questions in asterisk-dev and users lists, and you always seem to
> make non constructive comments about the people giving code/work for
> Free. And you focus in the negative part, never giving  importance to
> the positive things about it.
>
> If you dont like something, then change it yourself, they are not
> providing a payed service. The source is available AS-IS if you want
> it, and if you like it, take it; If you dont, just ignore it, try to
> not make peyorative comments.
>
> Regards
>
> On 8/15/06, Douglas Garstang <dgarstang at oneeighty.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Well, I don't know about you, but if I have to read the source code 
>> to work
>> out how it works, I'm going to go and look at someone elses, that may 
>> have
>> some BASIC documentation and examples.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Don [mailto:sales at xwebfactor.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:09 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
>>
>>
>>
>> Probably cause it is someone like most of us sitting at home doing
>> it...releasing it for free...so why would we write pages of 
>> documentation
>> for it?
>> If it's open source and it's free...Then offer them some money to make
>> documentation for it hehe...
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Douglas Garstang
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 11:05 AM
>> Subject: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
>>
>>
>> Can anyone recommend the best Manager Interface API, putting language
>> preferences aside?
>>
>> The python and perl ones have bupkiss documentation. I can't 
>> understand why
>> anyone would even write an api and make it publically available without
>> documenting it.
>>
>> Doug.
>>
>>
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