Scott Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:03 -0500, Andy Spitzer wrote: >> Woof! >> >> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:09:18 -0500, Scott Lawrence >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Each service should manage its own configuration and its own service >>> storage. >> Agreed. >> >>> MoH and Voicemail are two different services. >> Disagreed. Violently. MoH and Voicemail are too different FEATURES. >> They happen to both be implemented in the same executable (sipXivr), with >> the same requirements (FreeSWITCH, validusers.xml, access to user mailbox >> filesystem, etc.). That makes them the same SERVICE, and they are part of >> the same ROLE and cannot be torn asunder. >> >> Previously when MoH was implemented in the same executable as the Park >> Server (sipXpark), that did NOT mean that the Park Server and MoH were two >> different SERVICES. They lived and died as one. They were configured as >> one. >> >> Now that MoH split from sipXpark has moved in with sipXivr, she has gained >> some personal storage requirements (just like, um, VoiceMail), and there >> is no reason not to treat them as one. The service (sipXivr), happens to >> perform a number of different Features, that may or may not be related. >> Just like in the past AA and VM were the same service (sipXvxml), they are >> today the same service (sipXivr), and now MoH has moved in with them too >> (ooh, a threesome!). It just makes sense from a logicial and physical >> point of view that calls to the IVR service end up using the same >> executables. To do otherwise would add complication for no gain. >> >> If tomorrow they get a divorce and all three end up in separate >> executables, so be it. THEN the configuration can be split up and carved >> up and moved around. But that is then, and this is now. Let them live >> together in peace. > > That's a pretty good case, but I'd like to point out that the only thing > presently keeping us from making the IVR feature and the MoH feature > highly available by configuring multiple redundant/load-sharing > instances of them is exactly that they share storage with the voicemail > service. > >
So, are we sticking with separate storage for MoH then? I will set up a conference between the three of us, if we still don't have a consensus on this. It'd be great if we can close on this soon. Arjun _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
