[Freeswitch-users] Request for change

[Sunil Singh]

Hi,

After going through the documents, I feel that the documents assume that the
guy who is going to use freeswitch is well versed with asterisk or is an
asterisk user who is going to switch to freeswitch from asterisk. Its not
from the point that somebody from scratch can appreciate it for its design
or any other thing.

I appreciate the point of consideration for a large community, but for
freeswitch to be the best it has to wipe out that they know asterisk. They
should believe more on its users rather than what asterisk is doing. Once a
basic level is reached than it should be user driven rather than asterisk
driven. If we compete with them in mind than eventually we will mess up.

To be honest the beauty of asterisk lies in its simplicity. I was reading
freeswitch for hours and still struggling. Whereas in asterisk I started and
within hours I am up and running.

I also realised that in asterisk I didn't find a document talking about
freeswitch but in freeswitch its only about, with asterisk in mind. Whether
they are documents or working.

Comparisions will not allow to grow beyond a limit, we will always be living
in a psycho complex, leaving us with pain, agaony and anger.

We should love what we are doing, and we want to make a universal platform
thats it. No point in comparision and running for a race. Most of the open
source are started by technology lovers that's it. They don't create a
technology to compete, they want to create a new technology and that's why I
started using freeswitch that its going to create a new revolution which
asterisk has lost because of monetary considerations.

So I request to please love what we are doing and when ever we are making a
document think that its for a novice.


I request those who are driving it, please listen to your users more. If you
have started from scratch than let's some beauty come out of it, a
disruptive way of working. Like Apache, mysql ......  Ease of use is the
main thing for a starter or anybody else. Even it may be a best but if its
not simple than people are not going to use it and too much mention of
asterisk in the doc will end up people trying asterisk more rather than
using freeswitch.

The guys whom we are targetting today may not be there, there will be a new
generation and we should drive it with them in mind.

I hope we all give it a thought and think from a novice point of view.

Be a BOLT win with a self confidence and create only records.

regards,
Sunil
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