[asterisk-users] Getting presence working in 1.6.2

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Sunday 09 May 2010 23:20:15 Dovid Bender wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tlesher at digium.com>
> To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
> 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.

There WAS a discussion of this commit on the -dev list, starting here:
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2007-November/030790.html
It's equally frustrating for developers to discuss this on public lists, then
have people complain that there was no public discussion.  We cannot force
you to pay attention to discussions, can we?

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Tilghman Lesher
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