<p>In my personal experience, I also switched from asterisk to freeswitch. >From engineering perspective, a good process will befits the project in the long run, especially as it becomes more complicated and involves more people.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2011 9:34 AM, "Phone" <<a href="mailto:phone.bytes@gmail.com">phone.bytes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> I hope that we don't ever return to the old days of spending a year or <br>
> more regression testing PBX firmware between each release. That was <br>> okay, if you did not mind having a product that worked really well but <br>> did not really do much and was always about a year behind the cutting edge.<br>
> <br>> I applaud all of the FS Devs, I believe that everyone is doing their <br>> best to avoid introducing new issues as work is done to improve the code <br>> base and add new features and functionality.<br>
> <br>> We are happy to participate in the testing and feedback process.<br>> We hope to be able to make meaningful contributions down the road when <br>> we are more familiar with things.<br>> <br>> I have never seen a major issue that was not corrected with lightning speed.<br>
> It seems that even whenever someone reports an issue that is important <br>> to them, they are likewise addressed very rapidly.<br>> <br>> In my opinion, this is just the way that software development goes. Do <br>
> your best to modify (improve the project) code without causing other <br>> issues. Unfortunately, sometimes this happens. Especially when there <br>> so many people working to make contributions to grow and improve the <br>
> product for all. Frankly, I think the project is progressing very well.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> On 02/04/2011 10:01 AM, Anthony Minessale wrote:<br>>> I guess we should try to be more like all the other open source<br>
>> projects where every single day of GIT HEAD is perfect.<br>>> hmm....<br>>><br>>> The alternative is you can buy a soft-switch and live with it's faults<br>>> and pay annually for an update.<br>
>> Or even wait for our official releases which are very infrequent and<br>>> not well-supported once they are more than a few months old.<br>>><br>>> Also don't forget we use FreeSWITCH in a real product so you don't<br>
>> even see the amount of testing and QA we inherit from that product as<br>>> well as all the large carriers who use FreeSWITCH and do their best to<br>>> try beta version for us. Thank you all.....<br>
>><br>>> We have plans to stable branch soon. I guess that means everyone will<br>>> flock to that and it will be the end of my beta testers.<br>>> We do not only get regressions from features we get them sometimes<br>
>> from fixes as well, other peoples patches, many factors.<br>>><br>>> I guess what's really saddening since you bring up asterisk, is that I<br>>> spent years using it with perpetual problems in the release or the<br>
>> daily snapshot and it sort of has a reputation for this kind of thing<br>>> and all you hear about is how awesome it is from people. I don't<br>>> appreciate being treated like a witch hunt over one regression<br>
>> especially when we can fix it in 1 minute. That double-standard is<br>>> ridiculous.<br>>><br>>> I should just make a FAQ about this and paste in the URL:<br>>><br>>> We only have so much time to give to the world, we spend like 8-14<br>
>> hours a day on average working on the code.<br>>> Any suggestions or improvements (even the ones with the best<br>>> intentions) are only viable if they come with volunteers.<br>>><br>>> Bottom line is by downloading and building the code you are opting in<br>
>> to our community which involves occasional speed bumps.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> FreeSWITCH-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org">FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org</a><br>
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