[asterisk-users] Getting presence working in 1.6.2

[Dovid Bender]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tlesher at digium.com>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" 
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Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 22:39
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Getting presence working in 1.6.2


> On Friday 07 May 2010 13:59:23 Matt Darnell wrote:
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Jared Smith <jsmith at digium.com> wrote:
>> > To make it more clear and less cryptic, we split out the "callcounter"
>> > functionality in sip.conf, so that you could turn on/off the SIP device
>> > state tracking without limiting calls, and encouraged people to use the
>> > GROUP() and GROUP_COUNT() functions in the dialplan to enforce call
>> > limits.
>>
>> But why 'callcounter', it is frustratingly close 'call-limit' and
>> there is no possible way to use logic to determine what it does.
>>
>> If a change was to be made, why not use 'devicestatetracking=yes'?
>
> As it's now in three releases, it's rather late to be changing it, 
> although
> we could add an additional alias.  You should probably be watching the 
> commits
> list and send an email to the -dev list anytime you see something that you
> think could be better named.
>
> -- 

I find this very frustrating as well with Asterisk. I understand that names 
change for the better but I think there should be a discussion on it so all 
the users can come up with something that makes it easier for the most of 
us.