Well at least we aren't losing support for SIP on April 1st and moving to H323 trunking ....
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Hiers, David <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL > > If you start picking on our Mary Lou, however, I'll make her your personal > moderator! > > Thanks for the laffs, > > David > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: VoiceOps [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex > Balashov > Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 04:30 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [VoiceOps] Make Kamailio Great Again! > > For immediate release: > > ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2016)--Alex J. Balashov, a self-styled businessman > based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has a plan to "Make Kamailio Great Again". > > "Evariste Systems is huge. My name is on the building," said Balashov of > his iconic VoIP consulting brand. > > "And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me." > > Balashov has capitalised on a contentious election cycle marked by deep > political polarisation, growing income inequality and geopolitical > challenges such as global terrorism. And his sharp message of alarm about > the declining influence of the Kamailio SIP server project has resonated > with increasing numbers in the CxO suite, vaulting him to the lead in the > race for the IETF SIP Working Group nomination, according to recent polls > of primary voters. > > He has been quick to tout his competitive credentials in a tough global > open-source ecosystem. At a recent colloqium on unified communications, he > asked: > > "When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, OpenSIPS in Git > commits? They kill us. I beat OpenSIPS all the time. All the time." > > As Balashov sees it, a major cause of the beleaguered Kamailio project's > woes lies in its liberal patch acceptance policy and lax scrutiny of > third-party contributions: > > "When GitHub sends its people, they're not sending their best. > They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people > that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems. They're > bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I > assume, are good people." > > He has proposed a controversial solution that has drawn ire from liberal > ranks in the open-source community, but has also attracted applause and > standing ovations at his speaking engagements: > > "We have to have a firewall around the Kamailio source code. We have to > have an access control list. And in that firewall, we're going to have a > big fat door where commits and pull requests can come into the master > branch, but they have to come in legally. > The firewall will go up, and GitHub will start behaving." > > Balashov's firewall proposal has been met with scorn from critics who > deride it as impractical and quixotic. In particular, commentators have > raised questions about funding and resources as well as GitHub's > willingness to entertain a boundary around a project in its vicinity. > Balashov isn't concerned, however: > > "I will build a great firewall--and nobody builds firewalls better than > me, believe me--and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will build a > great, great stateful packet inspection wall on our border with GitHub, and > I will make GitHub pay for that wall. Mark my words." > > He has also been rebuked by rival IETF leadership candidates for his often > acerbic Twitter remarks directed at Lennart Poettering and the developers > of "firewalld". As he sees it, however, the network effects of social media > are a strength: "My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually > make my enemies tell the truth." He scoffed at the suggestion that his > characterisations of industry actors behind the RedHat-led "systemd" > movement are misleading: > > "RedHat was the worst Steward of Linux in the history of the kernel. > There has never been a Steward so bad as RedHat. The source code blew up > around us. We lost everything, including all synergies. > There wasn't one good thing that came out of that administration or them > being Stewards of Linux." > > Balashov's idiosyncratic campaign is not standing still. He has proven to > be a capable populist, adapting rapidly to an evolving sense of the kinds > of pronouncements that activate his swelling crowds of devotees. > Along the way, he has deftly deflected calls to subject his policy > proposals to expert review. > > "I know what I'm doing, and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot > of people, and at the appropriate time I'll tell you who the people are. > But I speak to a lot of people, but my primary consultant is myself, and I > have a good instinct for this stuff." > > At a recent gathering of SIP stack interoperability specialists, Balashov > the latest pillar of his platform to "Make Kamailio Great Again", in view > of growing security vulnerabilities in the latest Kamailio modules: > > "Alex J. Balashov is calling for a total and complete shutdown of commits > entering the master branch from the territory of the European Union until > our project's representatives can figure out what's going on. According to > Netcraft, among others, there are a lot of buffer overflows in Kamailio by > large segments of the EU population." > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. > If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. 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