FOSDEM - Open Source VoIP

[Kilian Krause]

Diana,

On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 08:41:16PM +0200, Diana Cionoiu wrote:
> It sounds very nice to have just one application for VoIP but it doesn't 
> really work. Take a look on what happend with Asterisk. 
-(snip)-
> I really doubt that we want to lose the diversity the open source provides.

I don't want to trade any of this diversity if there is sensible use
being made of it. It's just that VoIP is a difficult matter and takes a
real long term approach to code, enhance and maintain it. The grain of
salt I was trying to add was plain that if we'll have 100 different
endpoint apps that are like 35% complete that'll get us nowhere. Just as
relying on the one app that doesn't perform correctly for exotic use I
need doesn't help either. 

So to get my point straight, I'm all for new upstreams and new products
if there is real need and if the maintainer will know what he's actively
choosing. Just don't try to talk people into wildly starting new voip
applications and pumping them onto ftps when they'll just find out three
weeks after they're not up to the task and when there is still more
potential in existing upstream groups to participate and enhance these
from 80 to 90% completion or so. Nothing more, nothing less.

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian