>> Altought I don't like your tone, I second that. I also had some nasty >> issues on versions 1.4.14 to 1.4.17, specially 1.4.16.1. >> >> The main problem is the incredible number of deadlocks it causes. My >> clients often called more than once a day to complain that the PBX >> wasn't making and receiving calls anymore. >> >> My solution to all problems was to downgrade to 1.4.13, and it is rock- >> solid so far. >> >> >> Att >> Vinícius Fontes >> Desenvolvimento >> Canall Tecnologia em Comunicações >> >> >> >> Em 12/01/2008, às 13:54, Kevin P. Fleming escreveu: >> >>> Bob wrote: >>> >>>> There are a ton of changes between the 1.4 trunk and 1.4.17 >>>> releases. I'm >>>> left wondering what process happens when 1.4 trunk (branch >>>> actually) becomes >>>> 1.4.18. Obviously it doesn't spend an hour in testing. Is there a >>>> 1.4.18 >>>> release candidate? Am I correct in assuming that Mr. Fleming just >>>> pushes the >>>> 1.4 branch into a tag on his own and moves on? >>> >>> I have not made an Asterisk 1.4 release in quite some time... 12 >>> months >>> ago to be exact (1.4.0). In addition to this message being off-topic >>> for >>> this list, you should really have a factual basis for your comments if >>> you wish them to taken seriously and not as just trolling. >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin P. Fleming >>> Director of Software Technologies >>> Digium, Inc. - "The Genuine Asterisk Experience" (TM) >>> > > > I have followed several threads of late on various projects that seem to > be coming to a head on the methods and processes that make up an open > source project. As we are a development company that embraces the open > source concepts and ideas, we have begun exploring what makes Open Source > work or fail. Apparently other organizations and individuals are asking > the same questions and beginning to do comparative analysis for there own > and others benefit. I have included a link to a document written by an > individual > "Walt Scacchi" affiliated with "The Institute for software research" > located in Irvine California. This document provides a comparison between > FOSS, and SE based projects. > > I would be very interested if others would take the time to read the > document and comment on what it has to say. > > > http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi/Papers/New/Scacchi-BookChapter.pdf > > One of the primary things I have taken away from this read is that > communications between developers and users is why Open Source works. This > is especially true since the developers of Open source code are typically > the end users themselves. > > After reading as much as we can, and discussing it internally we think the > main question before many successful Open Source projects is can they > sustain the quality that made them successful and still conform to the > expectations of the community that use the code. > > The pitfall of course is if you fail, then you are prone to > disillusionment and therefore a loss of community support. This could > result in a fork of the base project and additional loss of community > support. > > IOHO (in OUR honest opinion)the Asterisk project is beginning to show > signs of fray and wear at the corners, this is only going to get worse if > the attitudes of the participants and developers are childish and > churlish. (Please note that I have displayed both of these in my tenure of > using Asterisk) The real question for our company is do we place resources > to support Asterisk, or do we place resources in support of another forum > that is attempting to grow both in capabilities and methodologies. Maybe > Digium doesn't care if they lose community support as they have been > successful in bringing in investment that will carry them forward as they > deploy more commercial product, I know that we as a company care because > our customer base cares about the quality of the products they use to run > their company. > > Thanks, > Dave >SNIP----
Apologies but here is an additional link that seemed of interest. http://www.dreamsongs.com/IHE/IHE.html Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
