Re: [RFC] Call for more development participation

Hi, Alexander.

The problem is that I haven't write access to CVS ;).

Alexander Malysh wrote:
> Hi Slava,
> 
> as a known open-source-process , no votes/comments are equal to +0 , so you as 
> a one that have write access should just commit things, because some time for 
> review by others elapsed and no vetos are there.
> 
> Only one comment from me: I'm +1 for this patch , but please add this new 
> config option to userguide. We _must_ keep userguide uptodate.
> 
> On Tuesday 16 December 2003 13:00, Vjacheslav Chekushin wrote:
> 
>>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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