[Kamailio-Users] project status and my decisions

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello all,

following the last events everybody perhaps wonders what is going on. I 
was surprised by the way everything happens and I am not sure yet how 
this resulted.

Probably a bit of time is needed to clarify relations between developers 
themselves and community as well. There is not any official statement 
that a developer quited the support for this project, but I guess the 
trust between some is at lowest level possible.

It is clear that we cannot say anything about a board right now that 
manages the project. From board discussions summary you may see that 
discussions were conducted to create a legal entity around the project, 
a non profit foundation. This might be hard to achieve in this status, 
but as a personal decision, I am not going in any other management group 
unless there is a legal framework backing up. Human relations prove to 
be pretty unpredictable and not conforming with initial statements.

What is sure now - openser 1.3.x and 1.4.x will be maintained properly 
and I am volunteering to take care but hope others will join. It is 
really a good achievement of a sip server. Decision about future 
development will be based on community and developers feedback for this 
project. I am not going to promise anything by myself as I admit one 
person (to be more specific: myself) cannot take care of the entire code 
base -- I am just realistic, not willing to sell dreams. I think the 
people that still believe in the project can come with suggestions and 
alternatives of future development.

What I can tell for sure, I am not going to join a fork of the original 
openser project. If something happened to make developers not working 
together, solution to solve nicely could have been found, in the worst, 
maybe just by splitting teams, but keeping old domain together just to 
show the new alternatives.

"Why not joining a fork in this manner?"> Because I was one of the 
founders of this one and involved in development and management at top 
level. If I failed to build something I started, I had all the tools in 
my hands, why just creating something similar saying the old is crap but 
this new one will be the best? What is the difference? Why I didn't do 
it first time? Would I be able to fool someone? Does leaving my ship in 
secrecy on back door will bring more trust on me? I doubt and perhaps 
you, too.

I am certainly assuming share of the failure in managing this project. I 
was there, in management, period. There is no single person responsible 
for mis-management, but it comes just easy for some to blame the others. 
But I am really confident we built outstanding sip server, all of us 
contributed with code, documentation, testing to an application that 
routes million and millions of minutes per day. There were accuses of 
bad things about project, I will argument in a separate message, this 
will get too long.

So, I am asking:
- how do you see a proper management structure for the future
- feedback about future involvement, suggestions and alternative for 
going on

Cheers,
Daniel

-- 
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
http://www.asipto.com