[SR-Users] rfc: types of announcements on sr-users list

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

Hello,

another topic discussed during the online devel meeting last week was
about what kind of announcements should be allowed on this list.

The purpose of sr-users list is to be an open community forum to help
each other to install, configure and operate Kamailio instances.

So far we announced here any new Kamailio versions (obvious) as well as
releases to the open source (and free) applications/tools strictly
developed for Kamailio (the kamcli and siremis), plus the events related
to Kamailio community or project development. Last I am aware of being
"accepted" to be announced on this list is the availability to hire
Kamailio experts or to be hired, relying on common sense and not abuse
of sending often such announcements (which happened so far).

Now it came into discussions if announcements about other applications
or projects that are built with Kamailio or useful for
building/operating Kamailio-based services. Becoming aware of such
things can be very valuable for the community, but because this may be
interpreted differently (what's useful for me, might not be for others),
we should be careful and set the rules to avoid "polluting/spamming"
this group of discussions.

On the online meeting was somehow considered acceptable to have one time
announcement when launching such a project. Clearly this is not the
place for announcing every new featured added in external projects or
their releases. Moreover, the projects have to be related from real time
communications perspective, like:

  - the project/application is built on top of kamailio (e.g., pbx
system with kamailio inside and web ui)
  - completes what kamailio can do or needs for real time communication
services (e.g., monitoring the sip/rtp traffic, billing/charging of sip
calls, sip softphone, lib or media server ...)

Again, only if these projects/applications are open source and free to
use, plus the announcement only when launching the project (or better
said, at the moment of the first usable version). Posts to this mailing
lists can be done only by members, so who sends the announcement has to
be part of the community.

If people find it acceptable to get such announcements, I would also
consider to revise the policy if we start having more than 2-3 such
announcements per month.

So, the question for now is if people here would find in useful to have
such announcements. Let's see what arguments are for one or the other
variant and get to conclusion good for most of us.

Cheers,
Daniel

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