On 03/02/2008, at 9:42 AM, Richard Neese wrote: > Do you all think that my daemonswitch project is worth the time. > will it get > used or is it just a waste of time and effort ? > > I need input. I dont hear any feed back of anyone testing it. I need > to > know ...
Open source projects are hard work. They often take many years of effort to achieve critical momentum and only then if the project actually solves a real need. Your project may well solve a problem for some people, but if I can suggest: * there is no obvious place to download anything from your site * many of the links don't go anywhere * you explain what it isn't (bloated Linux distribution) but don't explain what it is * you don't give people any reason to download it (is it easier than "portinstall asterisk"?, what do you package that is really nice and of benefit to people?) * Most people who want to download an integrated OS/Asterisk package would not be Unix gurus and therefore want something widely supported: why would they not choose Linux? If you think this solves a problem for people, then keep at it. Eventually it will be noticed and used. But be very clear about what problem it solves. Finally, don't expect any help: open source rarely works like that. If you get some, then great. But your project needs to be viable without it. Look at the millions of abandoned projects on sourceforge: some were probably quite good. If it solves a project *for you* then keep at it. Finally, you appear to often want feedback or kudos from this list. I don't know what you are working on to get that feedback; I mean you might have done a range of terrific things for Asterisk, but I don't think many people here know what they are, or why they should be interested in your knee injury. I mean, we all hope you get better, but perhaps you could be more specific about the implications for the FreeBSD Asterisk community with what you are working on. Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- Asterisk-BSD mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-bsd
