[asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's

[Don]

>> In my opinion, and it seems perfectly logical to me, if someone writes 
>> some code, but provides no documentation, such that no one can use it, >> 
>> then what is the point?

Because they probably wrote it for something they needed and released it to 
the general public...to those that want to take the time to figure out how 
such and such handled the problem they had. If people wanted to try and 
understand it fine...if they didn't fine...is how they looked at it...I mean 
if I write something specifically for me and released it cause I thought 
someone with a high understanding of what they were doing would want to use 
it...I wouldn't write documentation for it either.

If I wrote something specifically to release to the public...I would write 
documentation for it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Garstang" <dgarstang at oneeighty.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
<asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 3:34 PM
Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Moises Silva [mailto:moises.silva at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:20 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Manager Interface API's
>
>
> 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.

In my opinion, and it seems perfectly logical to me, if someone writes some 
code, but provides no documentation, such that no one can use it, then what 
is the point? They have not provided a solution to anyones problem except 
their own, and have no added value to the open source community in any way, 
except to create 'vapourware' whereby software appears to be available, but 
is unusable, because no one can work out how to make it work.

>
> 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.

I'll refer to my opinion above.

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