[Serdev] Re: [Serusers] OpenSER release
Steve Blair
blairs at isc.upenn.edu
Wed Jun 15 12:52:01 CEST 2005
Juha Heinanen wrote:
>Klaus Darilion writes:
>
> > There are people testing it and already fixing bugs. I remember a person
> > asking for help to create a cvs where he can extend the TLS patch - and
> > there was no response from the iptel guys. I also took quite long to
> > come up with the "contribs/experimental" directory - which IMO is not
> > very comfortable.
>
>i don't know what happened at iptel regarding tls. more than a month
>ago i got private email from iptel saying that tls will be included
>officially is ser CVS. this contribs/experimental thing cannot be it or
>if it is, i'm disappointed.
>
>-- juha
>
>
>
Let me start by describing our environment. We are an Enterprise
environment that
operates internally much like a Service Provide. We have a large
(30,000+) node IP network
with 25,000+ voice lines. We also have a research & development
environment that is driven
by our participation in Internet2 projects and also through University
funded research projects.
I may not be able to speak to the contribution and patch release
issues because we've only
used functionality inherent in the available releases. I can say we
would like a stable product
which is open to development from the community and allows such
development to be included
in periodically released future updates.
I'm not concerned about whether these updates appear first in the
unstable branch however
whatever appears in this branch should only be included in a stable
release if it has indeed been
shown to be stable and of consistent performance. We will run whatever
release we select in
our test environment before deploying it internally.
What does concern me is that we have access to stable releases with
clearly documented
feautres and a changelog showing what enhancements have been done since
the last release.
It is also helpful to see a list of features and functionality that has
been submitted from the
community and is to be included in future releases.
I've seen quotes that say SER is the Apache of VoIP. I personally
think this high praise
and shows a level of confidence in SER that is worth recognizing. SER
did not get this
level of recognition by being a half-bake application. Let's try to
focus on maintaining this
confidence by acknowledging the value of contributions from the
community and the
architectural vision of the core developers.
$0.02 from an end user.
- Steve
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