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Vlasis Hatzistavrou (KTI) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">John Todd wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Any mechanism that could improve the
Asterisk Open Source project is interesting to me, regardless of how
well we believe the current model works. If there's interest -
great! Let's see if it's serious. If not, OK, then things seem to be
working as they are now.
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It's great that there are people who are looking for additional ways to
improve Asterisk. However, I second the opinion that too many patches
and additions are/were sitting idle without being added in the project.
Some of them were important and/or useful IMHO.
Even though personally I only made a few additions and patches here and
there for the chan_h323 and chan_ooh323 as well as testing and bug
submissions, personally I felt discouraged to continue sending
improvements, after the first initial ones. Some of the later ones that
I didn't send just sit idle on my hard drive and now that Asterisk has
moved to version 1.6 they are just out of date.
I believe that mine is only an example of a small (perhaps negligible)
amount of contribution that was lost. I am pretty sure that many other
developers with more serious contribution than mine feel the same.
Perhaps I am missing the whole picture here, but IMHO, unless there is a
way to integrate into the project the current, free of charge
contribution that already exists, I don't know what good development
funding would do.
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And when I recently tried to use a redfone foneBRIDGE, a product that
can be regarded as competitive to Digium HW offerings, I discovered
that the process of building the driver was very cumbersome because the
required module was removed from the zaptel code repository by the
maintainers of the repository. I traced this back to some kind of an
apparent spat between the developer and the maintainers, nominally
about coding standards. I viewed it through another lens, as do others
undoubtedly view suggestions by Digium that people should contribute to
a SW development fund.<br>
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No conclusions. Just suspicions.<br>
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