As we begin to home in on release 4.2, we're starting to formulate plans for what comes next...
First, I want to reassure the community - Avaya is very much committed both to the SCS commercial product (see roadmap announcements made this week), and to leading, contributing to, and materially supporting the sipXecs open source project. There most assuredly will be versions beyond 4.2, and we're committed to making them better with every release. Which brings me to the Subject of this request for community input. One of the major strategic goals of the release after 4.2 is to make sipXecs simpler. Simpler to install, simpler to administer, simpler for end users to use. Nice goal, huh? Motherhood is good, Apple Pie is very good, and Simplicity is great - I'm glad we all agree :-) Now comes the challenging part - what is simplicity? We'd like to hear what the community thinks... Specifically, what are your top 5 suggestions for how to simplify sipXecs? For this thread, we are _not_ asking for what your favorite missing power telephony features are (we'll do some of those too) - we want to know how to make the features we've got easier to understand and use. What are the things that you have to jump through hoops to do (especially if you have to do them more than once)? What are the things you constantly have to explain to users? What are the things you know how to do but it's just a little irritating ever time you have to do them? Try to think back to your first experiences - what was hard before you knew what you were doing (newbies - this is your chance to jump in and contribute even before you know what you're doing!) ? This is not like those dumb Microsoft advertisements where one doofus after another takes credit for Windows 7 (really - would anyone actually want to take _credit_ for Windows?) - we really want to know. I'm going to suggest one more thing for this thread - that developers just read and not post. In particular, in this thread: don't explain that something our users think is hard is actually easy, or tell them why it's hard, or suggest how we might fix it, or chime in here and now with your ideas. We'll have our turns to process all this more actively later and elsewhere - this thread is about listening to our users pain. Hear, be inspired, and get motivated. _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
