[Kamailio-Devel] [Kamailio-Users] poll: project name

[Aymeric Moizard]

Answer 4

Tks,
Aymeric MOIZARD / ANTISIP
amsip - http://www.antisip.com
osip2 - http://www.osip.org
eXosip2 - http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/exosip/


On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> some people expressed inconveniences regarding the new name, so we would
> like to get your opinion about, therefore this is a poll that will get
> us to a decision. Here is the question:
>
> Do you like the name "Kamailio"?
> 1) Yes, I love it. Please keep it.
> 2) It is OK.
> 3) I do not mind the name at all
> 4) I do not like it
> 5) I hate the name and we should change it
>
> There is no need of explanations, as it is up to personal taste and
> decision. Just vote by option.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
> PS. for those interested...
>
> As short history about renaming story. On the 28th of March the board
> was informed about issues with SER part of project name. You can easily
> find who has the trademarks. On the 7th of April the board was informed
> about an agreement for the deadline as of September 30, 2008 to use old
> name. From there on, all old releases, documents, etc. can be referred
> by the old name, but nothing new. Other few discussions about what
> should/could be kept/changed followed and on 12th of May started the
> discussion about the new name with two main direction, something
> similar, to remind about old project or just something completely new,
> to be used as brand name. Couple of proposals and discussions regarding
> possible names followed up to 16th of July when was the deadline and the
> start of vote. Majority was reached on 17th but it was required to have
> opinions from all members of the board, last came from Bogdan, on the
> 28th of July.
>
> All discussions about migration were on the board mailing list. No
> change were done to openser.org configuration, just the new domain with
> kamailio in it was pointed to same server. Every step done was reported
> to board, following a schedule discussed there. Another discussion was
> about making the renaming and 1.4.0 release in same day. Being
> practically impossible to do all the work in one day, it was decided to
> do first the announcement about renaming. That happened on 28th when all
> agreed with the new name.
>
> As you can see, there was no 5 months of renaming duration. There was no
> change in openser.org DNS configuration undertaken with/without the
> knowledge of all board members. The new name domains were reserved when
> majority was achieved, in any case; dns entries for new name were
> pointed to old server shortly after booking the domains.
>
> -- 
> Daniel-Constantin Mierla
> http://www.asipto.com
>
>
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