And when I recently tried to use a redfone foneBRIDGE, a product that can be regarded as competitive to Digium HW offerings, I discovered that the process of building the driver was very cumbersome because the required module was removed from the zaptel code repository by the maintainers of the repository. I traced this back to some kind of an apparent spat between the developer and the maintainers, nominally about coding standards. I viewed it through another lens, as do others undoubtedly view suggestions by Digium that people should contribute to a SW development fund.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ones that I didn't send just sit idle on my hard drive and now that Asterisk has moved to version 1.6 they are just out of date.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.
No conclusions. Just suspicions.
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