[SR-Users] rfc: types of announcements on sr-users list

Hello, another topic discussed during the online devel meeting last week was about what kind of announcements should be allowed on this list. The purpose of sr-users list is to be an open community forum to help each other to install, configure and operate Kamailio instances. So far we announced here any new Kamailio versions (obvious) as well as releases to the open source (and free) applications/tools strictly developed for Kamailio (the kamcli and siremis), plus the events related to Kamailio community or project development. Last I am aware of being "accepted" to be announced on this list is the availability to hire Kamailio experts or to be hired, relying on common sense and not abuse of sending often such announcements (which happened so far). Now it came into discussions if announcements about other applications or projects that are built with Kamailio or useful for building/operating Kamailio-based services. Becoming aware of such things can be very valuable for the community, but because this may be interpreted differently (what's useful for me, might not be for others), we should be careful and set the rules to avoid "polluting/spamming" this group of discussions. On the online meeting was somehow considered acceptable to have one time announcement when launching such a project. Clearly this is not the place for announcing every new featured added in external projects or their releases. Moreover, the projects have to be related from real time communications perspective, like:   - the project/application is built on top of kamailio (e.g., pbx system with kamailio inside and web ui)   - completes what kamailio can do or needs for real time communication services (e.g., monitoring the sip/rtp traffic, billing/charging of sip calls, sip softphone, lib or media server ...) Again, only if these projects/applications are open source and free to use, plus the announcement only when launching the project (or better said, at the moment of the first usable version). Posts to this mailing lists can be done only by members, so who sends the announcement has to be part of the community. If people find it acceptable to get such announcements, I would also consider to revise the policy if we start having more than 2-3 such announcements per month. So, the question for now is if people here would find in useful to have such announcements. Let's see what arguments are for one or the other variant and get to conclusion good for most of us. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- www.asipto.com www.twitter.com/miconda -- www.linkedin.com/in/miconda