[Serusers] Which version of SER to use?

[SIP]

Oh don't worry. I won't take it the wrong way. I'll be the first to tell 
you that the documentation for SER is pretty close to unusable.  But 
unfortunately, that's the way most open source projects are. You have 
all these coding geniuses building them, and all these systems geniuses 
testing them... and not a single one of them remembers how to convey 
information to the rest of us. ;)

What the project lacks is a full-time technical writer -- someone whose 
job it is is to corner the developers and ask them what all of this 
stuff means (in intricate detail) and not let them go until they've 
fully explained all of it. Then he/she can take that information and 
translate it into something human beings can understand.

This is one reason why good technical writers are expensive, and the 
primary reason that most companies and projects 'make do' with whatever 
they can find.

If you know any good technical writers who might be willing to fly off 
to Europe and ply some of the SER team with beer enough to get them 
talking, we could most certainly use it. I'll pay for the beer. ;)

N.


lists at infoway.net wrote:
> Excellent news. Thanks for the feedback. Overall, and please don't take this negatively, I think documentation for SER is difficult for beginners, so if we have to go through the learning curve anyway, we might as well do it in the newer version.
>
> Thanks again
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2007 5:04 pm, SIP <sip at arcdiv.com> said:
>
>   
>> For all intents and purposes, SER 2.0 (the new one) is ready for use.
>> The only thing it's really waiting on to be 'stable' is some better
>> documentation.  However, it's best, if you're just getting started, to
>> deploy with the new version and maybe muddle your way through a bit
>> until documentation is complete.
>>
>> N.
>>
>>
>> lists at infoway.net wrote:
>>     
>>> We are planning on deploying a couple of SER servers and integrate them with
>>> either SEMS or Asterisk for voicemail. However, we are a bit confused as to which
>>> version of SER to go with? From what we can tell, the latest stable version is
>>> 0.9.6. However, we know of the new 0.10.X version. Reading up on the site, there
>>> is some documentation that explains a little bit of the differences and/or
>>> migration recommendations/steps.
>>>
>>> So, in an effort to keep life as simple as possible, which version should we work
>>> with? We are afraid that if we go through a learning cycle with 0.9.6 we're going
>>> to "suffer" when migrating to the new version, either because of the learning
>>> curve or because of a potential painful migration process.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
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