Olle,
I agree that merging Kamailio into SER is a good move, but experience
taught me that the first impression is not all the time relevant.
OpenSER project was not well received at the begining, but after some
time, people were happy about it. Same with OpenSIPS - people failed to
understand from the first minute the idea behind, but they did and they
are happy.
But let's see the future deliverables and then decide.
For the moment there is too much noise - politics, discussions,
re-organizing, hot topics, etc - but few results (on technical side).
Thanks and regards,
Bogdan
Johansson Olle E wrote:
From my personal perspective, the new project looks
more like SER
absorbing Kamilio (considering the sizes, the companies behind each
project, the
resources, and the man-power behind each project).
And at the moment I would like preserve the OpenSER vision and to
have an open source project (a standalone one), far away from the
"control" of any Big Brother ;)
Bogdan,
Thanks for your feedback, which clearly indicates where you stand
today. We will have to see what the community says, but so far, I've
only seen cheers and applauds.
How this will work out in the future is something no one really can
guess at this point. The more people that joins this effort and forms
it, the better. The time to make it right is now, by working together
and aligning the codebases as described, then working towards the
future with new releases.
We'll see if the combined forces can produce any deliverys or not.
Today, we can only hope and guess.
I think it's a great starting point that they have started talking,
and agreed to work together on some parts. To me, it seems to be room
for two final products stil, sharing the same core. One Kamailio and
one SER.
After the developer meetings, I think it's time to call for a joint
community meeting to have people active in the community - not only
developers - in the same room, discussing benefits of working together.
I don't want to argue your standpoint, just hope that you will follow
the progress and see if there's some benefits for OpenSIPS to join at
some stage. Regardless, the GPL license allows you to benefit from the
work as always.
I might be naive, but I do have a positive feeling about this :-)
/O