[Serdev] SER as an extendable codebase/SIP stack - was: So who/what is SER for, anyway?

[Martin Hoffmann]

Dragos Vingarzan wrote:
> 
> And I have also realized why Martin is upset on my wave of change
> requests: I was using 0.10.99 for a looong time now.

I am only strongly objecting to one of your proposals: Dumbing SER down.
The rest, like having new functionality: go ahead.

> > I hope Martin has by now showed you that somebody would actually want
> > that and why ?!
> > g-)
> well, he did. But I hope that SER's meaning is NOT to make stupid and
> broken SIP clients barely usable.

It is not the only flexibility you gain. You can relatively easy adjust
the service to your own needs. And from that also you benefit.

> Because this flexibility is also very
> dangerous and often SER+cfg is misbehaving after so many tweaking.

Yepp. But you quoted the power and control thing yourself.

> And again, there is a huge difference between me and Martin: it looks
> like I am already bored with Ottendorf, while others just seen it's
> power. I can leave with minor bugs, although the current version did not
> gave me trouble at all. Sorry, I'll come back in 6 months :-).

I very much doubt that we will be using Ottendorf in production in 6
months. I just checked, me previous employer, a large scale web hoster
is still using Apache 1.3 in production. There is good reasons for that.
As much as I'd like to switch to SER 2.0 soon, it is just not possible.
Way too many changes.

Regards,
Martin