[asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

[Danny Nicholas]

I did not mean to state or imply that you are lazy or stupid;  It's just
that some folks expect to spend 10 minutes reading a PDF, set up Asterisk
and all is well - That's not what Open Source is about.  If you want limited
or no risk, you have to pay the piper.  I'll bet there are thousands of
pieces of code that are great that don't get through the contribution
process.  You can't have any type of *cracy without crazy :)

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Lee Howard
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 1:16 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] allowguest defaults to yes for SIP

Danny Nicholas wrote:
> "Gentlemens clubs" usually don't have any.  While LH probably has a valid
> point, jumping on Til isn't the way to bring it home.  You can't protect
the
> stupid or lazy from themselves.  If you can't do this right, pay someone
> else to.

You're suggesting that if I pay someone they'll be able to get the 
default setting for allowguest changed to "no" ?

I could be wrong, but I don't generally consider myself stupid or 
lazy... and yet this default setting as "yes" took me by surprise, 
obviously.

So either I am stupid or lazy or there is a risk here that can catch 
even others off-guard.

I've been down this contribution road-path a half-dozen times before 
with Asterisk.  So forgive me if I don't play it out to the final futile 
note.

In ESR's CatB there's the idea where the maintainer encourages (and 
wants) bug reporting, feedback, and other non-code forms of contribution 
(as well as code contributions).  He refers to it as grooming 
co-developers.  That's not how Asterisk development works... here you 
can contribute if you're already in the meritocracy, but if you're not, 
then you have more than a difficult time in trying to even contribute in 
small non-monetary ways.

So anyway, I've been down this road a half-dozen times already, and it 
ends up being futile, frustrating, and time-consuming.  I'm too busy 
today to be interested in playing.

Thanks,

Lee.

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