6 Jul
2009
6 Jul
'09
2:42 a.m.
I am not clear on what exactly the SIP-Router project is, nor how it
will affect me? Is Kamailio eventually being replaced with SIP-Router
once all the functionalities have been rolled in? Will my entire
configuration script need to be reworked to eventually operate with
this new platform? Can anyone explain to me why this merge is
happening so soon after Kamailio split with OpenSIPS? All this
turmoil feels very destructive to me.
6 Jul
6 Jul
2:42 a.m.
I am not clear on what exactly the SIP-Router project
is, nor how it
will affect me? Is Kamailio eventually being replaced with SIP-Router
once all the functionalities have been rolled in? Will my entire
configuration script need to be reworked to eventually operate with
this new platform? Can anyone explain to me why this merge is
happening so soon after Kamailio split with OpenSIPS? All this
turmoil feels very destructive to me.
This is a confusing topic, and could definitely use additional discussion
and official clarification.
I have been made to understand that Kamailio will not be replaced by
sip-router. It is rather that sip-router is a a "common core" that
integrates both Kamailio and sip-router modules, and that both projects
will share this common core going forward, but remain distinct. The
analogy provided to me by Daniel was of Linux kernels vs. distributions.
This seems fair enough, but it doesn't adequately explain who sip-router
is intended for and who Kamailio is intended for, and who should use which
and why and under what circumstances. It does also seem that most of the
development and documentation energy is being concentrated into sip-router
integration, which leaves open the question of what the future of Kamailio
is.
This definitely needs to be discussed more. Thank you very much for
raising it, Geoffrey.
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7 Jul
7 Jul
1:05 p.m.
On Montag, 6. Juli 2009, Alex Balashov wrote:
[..]
This seems fair enough, but it doesn't adequately explain who sip-router
is intended for and who Kamailio is intended for, and who should use which
and why and under what circumstances. It does also seem that most of the
development and documentation energy is being concentrated into sip-router
integration, which leaves open the question of what the future of Kamailio
is.
Hi Alex, Hi Geoffrey,
just one small addition with regards to eventual concerns about maintenance:
One reason that a lot of the development energy going to sr repository at the
moment is that the merge broke some things, and also certain existing
functionality from the core were not sufficient documented and such. But apart
from the move from svn to git there is no real change with regards to the
maintenance of the existing stable kamailio versions. It has always been more
or less like that, stable branches should be, well stable. ;-)
The 1.5 and 1.4 branches will be maintained as usual, even 1.3 still got a few
bug fixes in the last weeks i think. For example we (with our infrastructure)
have not migrated to 1.5 yet.. So i don't think there are reasons to fear that
this branches will be not maintained anymore, even if a new stable release is
out.
Henning
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