[Kamailio-Devel] [Kamailio-Users] the sip router project

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Jiri Kuthan wrote:
> I would very much discount conspiracy, absorption and other discouraging
> and ungrounded concerns. 
Considering you came with the same merging proposal to me (to merge 
opensips into ser), I can say I have a better understanding of what is 
going on.
Also, considering the huge unbalance between SER and Kamailio (like 
resources, man power, skills), the SER's inflexibility when comes to 
external driven changes (as part of Tekelec internal agenda) and the 
major differences between the core+TM code from the two projects 
(process management, external interfaces, scripting language, etc) I 
made a feet-on-the-ground analysis of what will possible result from 
this merging and expressed my concerns - these concerns are for the 
technical side (like befits to the end-user), as on the political side, 
it is 100% clear the win-win situation.
If they are true or not, you can argue or let the future decide.
> In fact, if there is something which appears hard
> to follow, why Bogdan forked off SER with many strong arguments to 
> openser,
> and now forked off from his openser to opensips with arguments remarkably
> similar to the former.
Not so hard to follow, but almost predictable as my goals never changed. 
I moved out of SER when it didn;t provide the proper environment for 
project development and carried on with OpenSER which was a huge 
success. Again, when OpenSER stopped being a project to evolve, I 
carried on with OpenSIPS following the same goals.

You may crucify or demonize me for this, but for me it is important to 
be able to deliver the software I'm working on.
>
> "Serial forking" is not the kind of business I'm interested here at all.
> In fact, I think forking is a VERY BAD THING to do and I'm very strongly
> opposed to attempts discouraging unforking and encouraging other forks.
> More funded opinions than mine can be for example found here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29
Of course you strongly opposed to any other alternative/competition to 
SER....it is not so difficult to guess to be honest.

Bogdan