Cypros Telephony

So there we are again .. a FOSS project who’s initiator and principal developer wants to control everything. Hype seems to get strange things out of people and the latest happenings where there is no way for us to get a booth at the show, proove again that people hate competition. Somewhere that is strange for me sicne competition brings new ideas, new ways and alltogether more intersting life into the picture. But that is probably just me liking to have things interesting and developing. And this hole stupid story of attacking us wherever we go and whatever we do. Childish. Anyway, I am looking ahead to Madrid, haven’t been to that Hotel yet. Hopefully euroair will have some flight tickets left so it want cost a fortune. I am also looking very much forward to meet all those people I did not manage before and have a coffee and a chat with friends, resellers, collegues and all together tons of intersting people (or so I hope;)

Isn’t this nice … all our stuff is again hunky dory and running smoothly from some servers in the Netherlands and Denmark. Thought it would never happen especially since as allways customers tend to need one when one has no time .. Anyway .. Halo Kwadrat is up and shop and whatever and we are full power working on the european Sangoma Reseller site. VON was a real eye opener this time with all those fantastic people you can meet and all this new things you can hear and see. If only they would start doing booths that show ssomething usable But than again .. people like it anyway. Having our stuff on drupal ==>

Having survived the chaos of the last months and finally deciding to let it go and organise life a bit … (not that I really expect to find me able to) I sat down today and thought a bit about how nice it is that there are so many competing projects in Voice FOSS. There are solutions to every taste, none is perfect but they are slowly slowly getting there, so you really have a choice in how you want to make your voice solution happen. Fun. If life wouldn’t be too short for that I’d like to take part in all of them. Play with all those sers, asteriskes, aefirions, yates, sipxes and how you call them all and see them all grow and develop each into a superb voice solution, superseeding all those chaos spaghetti programming they originally consisted of. And than there are all those tools and libs, like OPAL, Woomera and the like, that let you make a super duper voip solution in days. Never thought that possible while playing with the cisco 5800’s and swearing the hell out of Cisco. Now imagine, taking the pieces out of each and all of them and trying to make one perfect solution for oneselve .. isn’t that a perfect idea ?

And again I am in the middle of the religious crisis of this world. Revision Control, Projet administration etc.. For our own Open Source Projects and also closed source projects I use a combination of subversion and trac which prrofs seet and sexy for small projects. Now for larger projects like aefirion for example I am getting to the limits of trac. No forum management, o mailing lists, no high class bugtracking. A solution would be to use the projects module from Drupal, but that does not include subversion and cannot compare to the sexy code management thingies in trac. Dilemma. Asking around is tricky, everybody ha his own religion, starting from Just Shovel It All to Berlios ending at Who Needs That Stuff Anyways … I Am Happy Since Decades With Rcs. And than there are all the other revision systems … sigh. Probably I’ll end up putting it together from pieces, utilising drupal + subversion + parts from trac + some sweet bugtracker like the java one I recently looked at ..