[Users] Re: [Serusers] OpenSER release

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Thanks Bayan,

if you have more patches/idea to integrate in the next release (current 
cvs head version), feel free to send them to see what about.

bogdan


Bayan William Towfiq wrote:

> Great job on the OpenSER release Bogdan. We hope to assist in the 
> OpenSER development efforts, a lot of the changes in your list were 
> patches we had been planning to write or had written already.
>
> Thanks again,
> William
>
> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> openser is an alternative for people who needs fast progress. There 
>> are more and more people asking when some feature will be available 
>> in a stable release or if a contribution will be ever accepted. For 
>> example our guys came up with a  ACC patch to implement custom 
>> accounting - feature witch was ask by some users. But for almost half 
>> a year the patch was ignore by module maintainers....the same with 
>> TLS or other features. OpenSER wants to overcome this problem. And 
>> btw, the scripting is the same, compatibility will be 
>> maintained...but with more features and more module. We shouldn't 
>> confuse interoperability with enhancement.
>>
>> We are SER people, even core developers of SER, but we cannot impose 
>> our point of view over the whole project - there are other people 
>> responsible for other parts of code and I cannot neither go over 
>> their code, neither to force them to progress.
>> It's just a matter of effort versus waisted effort........
>>
>> bogdan
>>
>> Dave wrote:
>>
>>> I do not think openser is a good idea. This will only
>>> lead to further confusion and interoperability
>>> problems vis-a-vis ser.cfg.
>>> Why can't the openser guys invest their time and
>>> efforts to work with ser people rather than forking on
>>> a new path?
>>> It seems to me voice-systems.ro is trying to endorse
>>> itself by launching openser.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>