Continuing the series of the previous post, these issues were pointed by the person that started the fork from Kamailio (OpenSER). I find none true or consistent. I am pasting here the comments I did on mailing list some days ago.
1) the need for a new reliable release – delayed or low-quality releases are affecting the credibility of the project
- http://lists.kamailio.org/pipermail/users/2008-August/018966.html
- the link above shows this one was a faster release than in past
- http://www.kamailio.org/mos/view/KAMAILIO-v1.4.0-Released/
- the link above shows the efforts in creating a testing suite which was running on devel server during this development cycle
- the link above shows no much new things in the core, but code cleanup, duplicity removal, source code documentation
2) degradation of the project quality – testing, performance measurements and code quality control are overlooked
- presented before, testing suite was built and running, lot of code was reviewed and improved
- who in the new project (n.r., the new forked project) will do that and couldn’t do it because was blocked in the old project
3) lack of the control, management and coordination of the project – critical project issues could not be handled or solved
- I am not aware of mis-coordinations that could affect the project so badly
- I am not aware of critical issues that could not be solved and there was no report of a critical deadlock
- if there was a failure in management, all from the board share same fault
Moreover, I believe there are facts in the past that openser took care of its quality. I repeat as I said that QA might not be enough no matter is done. If openser 1.3.x is the core component of a platform hosting about 2 millions of subscribers does not ensure some QA, then nothing else can be said, see:
http://www.ilocus.com/2008/03/the_largest_voip_offering_base.html
None above motivates such reactions as happened recently, but if does, then probably with some openess and discussions everything would have been better now.
Worth to link here the board discussions minutes:
http://lists.kamailio.org/pipermail/users/2008-August/018965.html
