Being one of the founders of OpenSER, involved deep in the management and development, I was (still am) asked about my position regarding the fork from OpenSER, so I am quoting here my email sent to mailing lists few days after.
As an update, the Kamailio project continues OpenSER and has already many new features:
http://openser.blogspot.com/2008/10/towards-kamailio-v150.html
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Following the last events (n.r. fork from OpenSER project) everybody perhaps wonders what is going on. I was surprised by the way everything happens and I am not sure yet how this resulted.
Probably a bit of time is needed to clarify relations between developers themselves and community as well. There is not any official statement that a developer quited the support for this project, but I guess the trust between some is at lowest level possible.
It is clear that we cannot say anything about a board right now that manages the project. From board discussions summary you may see that discussions were conducted to create a legal entity around the project, a non profit foundation. This might be hard to achieve in this status, but as a personal decision, I am not going in any other management group unless there is a legal framework backing up. Human relations prove to be pretty unpredictable and not conforming with initial statements.
What is sure now – openser 1.3.x and 1.4.x will be maintained properly and I am volunteering to take care but hope others will join. It is really a good achievement of a sip server. Decision about future development will be based on community and developers feedback for this project. I am not going to promise anything by myself as I admit one person (to be more specific: myself) cannot take care of the entire code base — I am just realistic, not willing to sell dreams. I think the people that still believe in the project can come with suggestions and alternatives of future development.
What I can tell for sure, I am not going to join a fork of the original openser project. If something happened to make developers not working together, solution to solve nicely could have been found, in the worst, maybe just by splitting teams, but keeping old domain together just to show the new alternatives.
“Why not joining a fork in this manner?” Because I was one of the founders of this one and involved in development and management at top level. If I failed to build something I started, I had all the tools in my hands, why just creating something similar saying the old is crap but this new one will be the best? What is the difference? Why I didn’t do it first time? Would I be able to fool someone? Does leaving my ship in secrecy on back door will bring more trust on me? I doubt and perhaps you, too.
I am certainly assuming share of the failure in managing this project. I was there, in management, period. There is no single person responsible for mis-management, but it comes just easy for some to blame the others. But I am really confident we built outstanding sip server, all of us contributed with code, documentation, testing to an application that routes million and millions of minutes per day. There were accuses of bad things about project, I will argument in a separate message, this will get too long.
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