[asterisk-scf-committee] Asterisk SCF 1.0 Feature List, and progress towards it

[Andrew Latham]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/TOP/Asterisk+SCF+1.0+Target+Feature+List+by+Milestone
>
> This list, including milestones 1, 2 and 3, represents what was agreed upon
> by the committee members early this year. The list was intended to ensure
> that when Asterisk SCF 1.0 was released, that it would have enough
> functionality to be interesting and useful to potential users, so that they
> would start trying it out and learning how to develop on/for it.
>
> As I said on the call yesterday, it's not surprising that development has
> taken longer than expected, although we've made a significant amount of
> progress. Today, we're expecting to have the milestone 2 list completed by
> the end of this month, and then spend the next few weeks (before AstriCon)
> testing, polishing, documenting, etc.
>
> What this means is that we need an assessment from the committee about
> whether the items that were placed into milestone 3 are *necessary* for a
> suitable and usable 1.0 release, or whether it's acceptable to proceed with
> the milestone 2 list and build the milestone 3 features for a 1.1 release.
>
> Give us your honest opinion: what's important here is that the 1.0 release
> be substantial enough to allow interested potential users to make serious
> use of it and learn from it. It doesn't have to be 100% competitive and at
> feature-parity with other platforms, of course... but we don't want
> potential users to find it so lacking that they just shelve it and wait for
> another release.
>
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I agree with your summary Kevin. Honestly the direction listed on the
wiki looks great.  Milestone 3 is optional (aka 1.1, 1.2) type stuff.
As far as the discussion about the installation documentation.  I have
installed and played with Asterisk SCF with the info on the Wiki.  I
think that we only need to broaden the target audience for the
documentation.  The info is all there, just takes some skill to get it
done.


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