Re: [RFC] Call for more development participation

Hi, List.
I agree with Angel about his feeling.
As example I can point to one provided patch:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01697.html

I posted it and didn't get any comments (negative or positive).
So I just use it in my enviroment.

Angel Fradejas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First of all, I must say I love to contribute to the kannel project, and I
> tried hard months ago to be more active, both with comments/votes/advice and
> mainly with new code/ideas/features.
> 
> We use kannel hard to process heavy premium-sms traffic (several millions
> MOs/month), so I guess we have dealed with the kind of issues you might
> expect doing this business: thousands of sms-services, sessions, centralized
> accounting, and so on. Not so much familiar with the heavy push-only
> business (although there we have the push-guru Alex :-)
> 
> My main concern about our loss in activity in the devel list is the somewhat
> random criteria to accept or reject contributions: a developer is mainly
> motivated to contribute to an open source project if he/she sees his/her
> work is being taken into consideration, becames part of the tree, you know
> what.
> 
> But here, to be frank, I have certain bad feelings that my contributions
> (not only code, but also ideas, suggestions, RFCs, etc.) have not been very
> sucessful (surely for very good reasons), but anyway you cannot abstract
> from that feelings.
> 
> It comes to my minf for example discussing the need to make billing-info
> flow from smsbox to bearerbox (and there were several patches for that, not
> mine I have to say), and everybody replying that billing were something
> outside the scope of kannel, and so on, so we had the extra work of keeping
> that kind of patch in sync with cvs version, and then one day, voilá,
> &binfo= appears without any further explanation. That is the kind of
> randomness I'm referring to.
> 
> Nobody takes offense from my comments, please.
> 
> I'm just trying to explain my thoughts.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Angel Fradejas
> Mediafusión España, S.A.
> [email protected]
> www.mediafusion.es

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