[asterisk-dev] asteriskscf and twitter

[Paul Belanger]

On 12-09-12 09:58 PM, Andrew Latham wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Alec Davis <sivad.a at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry Paul.  Yes Asterisk SCF is being dropped in favor of
>>> recent developments.
>>>
>> Anybody care to expand on that, what further developments?
>>
>> Alec Davis
>>
>
> I am sure there will be an official announcement.  This is what I got
> today.  Asterisk SCF is not going to be "dropped" per say.  Active
> Digium development is going to stop.
>
> letter to the committee:
> '''
> As you know, work has been on-going in this project for the last
> couple of years, and while SCF was never intended to be a replacement
> for Asterisk, it certainly was designed to solve some of the
> architectural issues relevant to Asterisk. Currently there is a
> working version of the code that is publicly available.
>
> During this time period, Asterisk has also evolved: performance has
> been improved, many new features have been added, and architectural
> improvements, such as improved media handling, have been incorporated
> into recent versions.  While this clearly does not satisfy all the
> goals of Asterisk SCF, it certainly represents a significant step in
> improving the experience for Asterisk users.
>
> Although the community has provided assistance in guiding the Asterisk
> SCF project, Digium has provided almost all of the software
> development effort. Due to the sheer complexity, the Asterisk SCF
> project has yet to progress to a point that enables significant
> development contribution from the community, and the level of resource
> investment required to adequately sponsor and maintain both Asterisk
> and Asterisk SCF is simply stretching the company too thinly.
>
> Therefore, the decision has been made to suspend our development work
> on the Asterisk SCF open source project, in order to more fully
> support the needs of the Asterisk community.
>
> There may well be some community developers that would like to work
> with the current version of Asterisk SCF so we will continue to make
> the code publicly available, although Digium will not be supporting
> the software in the same manner to which Asterisk community members
> are accustomed.
>
> Valuable lessons have been learned in the process of working on
> Asterisk SCF. Some of these are directly applicable to Asterisk, and
> will be beneficial during the development of Asterisk 12 and, indeed,
> all future releases.
>
> For now, we would like to thank everyone who has participated in the
> development of Asterisk SCF for their efforts. If you are interested
> in discussing how some of the goals and experience from Asterisk SCF
> can be applied to Asterisk, please join us for the DevCon event at
> Astricon.
> '''
Indeed, a hard sell to keep funding going.

It be interesting to hear what works and what does not with the current 
version.  I know they've been trying to get a beta out the door for last 
10 months but I've never really heard the reason for the slip.

When I went on-site at Digium last summer, Darren Session had a very 
impressive setup for testing SCF.  Lots of cool things he was doing. 
Hopefully some work could be done to import his work into our testing 
infrastructure.

Sad to see it go.

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