[Asterisk-Users] CVS Closed?

[Nick Bachmann]

Carl A. Cook wrote:

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>Thanks, to the two.
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>But I can't tell you how weary and sick I am of this kind of reflexive
>criticism.  It is -always- counter to true advancement, and burns those
>delicate few who actually cause progress, in addition to (pitiable) n00bs.
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>I run a small new architecture company, and am a vocal open standards
>advocate.  I'm an academic, a free-thinker, and researcher, and the thought
>of investing the large amount of effort and time required to learn a new
>thing in detail isn't a problem;  but if it's necessary to join another
>bummed-out Thunderdome, where countless bloody-minded fukkers are sitting in
>the bushes waiting to mean-spiritedly bite my ass off whenever I ask a stupid
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One thing that is very hard for people new to the Open Source 
development world is the idea that the people on the mailing list (or 
IRC channel) don't have to be nice to you.  This is not Dell; we're not 
your wet blanket of support -- we don't get paid to be. (If you want 
that kind of thing, email me off list, I run a consulting company where 
we'll do that for you if you give us money :-) ) You're just not used to 
getting reproached by tech support.  Accept that you asked a stupid 
question and got called on it.  It's not like we're going to hold it 
against you (unless, of course, you become a compulsive 
dumb-question-asker).

That said, I've noticed that most of the people on this list are usually 
very helpful if you do your part in the whole ask-questions-get-answers 
scheme.  Go read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and 
then, hopefully, you'll feel better about what happened now.

>question or have a 'different' idea, I can't spare the resources.
>
I don't think you'll have trouble with different ideas: people here are 
open to change.  If you lurk around a bit, you'll see that this is a 
very open community.

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>That said, I'm trying very hard to swallow this hairball, and investigate
>asterisk.
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So basically, you did something dumb: build a bridge and get over it. 
 Go read the documentation: there's a book at 
http://www.asteriskdocs.org and a handbook, along with a wiki at 
voip-info.org and lots of good web pages.  When you coalesce the 
information they contain, you'll find that they have the answers to most 
of your questions.

Nick

P.S. Don't forget to read 
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html.