Re: [asterisk-biz] General development funding: discussion and survey

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Vlasis Hatzistavrou (KTI) <vhatz@kinetix.gr> wrote:

John Todd wrote:
> Any mechanism that could improve the
> Asterisk Open Source project is interesting to me, regardless of how
> well we believe the current model works.   If there's interest -
> great!  Let's see if it's serious.  If not, OK, then things seem to be
> working as they are now.
>

It's great that there are people who are looking for additional ways to
improve Asterisk. However, I second the opinion that too many patches
and additions are/were sitting idle without being added in the project.
Some of them were important and/or useful IMHO.

Even though personally I only made a few additions and patches here and
there for the chan_h323 and chan_ooh323 as well as testing and bug
submissions, personally I felt discouraged to continue sending
improvements, after the first initial ones. Some of the later ones that
I didn't send just sit idle on my hard drive and now that Asterisk has
moved to version 1.6 they are just out of date.

I believe that mine is only an example of a small (perhaps negligible)
amount of contribution that was lost. I am pretty sure that many other
developers with more serious contribution than mine feel the same.

Perhaps I am missing the whole picture here, but IMHO, unless there is a
way to integrate into the project the current, free of charge
contribution that already exists, I don't know what good development
funding would do.

Just my 2 Eurocents.

Regards,
Vlasis Hatzistavrou.

This is the impression that I get as I referenced earlier and I am not even a developer, I just keep tabs on development issues on the dev list and bugtracker. 

I have seen it over and over and over.  Even many posts, why was my such and such closed? to the dev list.

I am not sure how priorities are assigned or whatever, and possibly with funding, then these developers' contributions would get more attention, or is it possibly the features that would make ABE or SwitchVox a more valuable product get more attention? 

If it is the latter, I suggest Digium go IPO and see what happens. 

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