Re: Poll on the future of the OpenH323 project

> > Well, I assumed that my proposing to open a new site @ SourceForge was
> > enough to anger many at Quicknet. But maybe it isn't so.
> 
> Anger?  No.  Concern, absolutely.  Quicknet needs and respects the 
> community.  We do want to support the community and want the support of 
> the community.

Well, this comes as a surprise after so many years of inaction and disinterest.

> As Craig told me when I first spoke with him almost 3 years ago, the 
> complexity of openh323 requires far more testing than an individual or 
> small company can do economically, hence the MPL release of openh323.

I would dare to say that you got more than just bug fixes from external
contributors / the community.

> OpenH323 is a highly unusual case.  I know of no other project who's 
> founder sold it lock, stock and barrell.  The price paid makes it such 
> that the purchaser, Quicknet, is very unlikely to simply hand it over to 
> "someone".

I am not ignoring the fact that the project was sold to Quicknet. They got a
website ( www.openh323.org ) and copyright to the source code for their money,
whatever the sum that ended up being paid.

Now that you made it easier for others to contribute their time & energy and
update the www.openh323.org website, you may find more people willing to do so.

Still, some like myself will not consider contributing content to any
commercial website for the very reason that it is commercial, be it
www.openh323.org or else.

So when I talk about a community site @ SourceForge, I mean something separate
from Quicknet and run independently by the community itself, with no one
exercising unilateral control on its content but peer reviewed/moderated
instead.

This would have no bearing on the value of your purchased www.openh323.org
site, and thus should not bother anyone at Quicknet.

Now, this is not only about the website. As anyone could see over the years,
Quicknet has done nothing for maintaining the CVS, leaving that task on the
shoulder of one individual now external to Quicknet.

This has had negative effect on the community, because the CVS is the essence
of a project and the whole community depends on it.

I, for one, do not feel at ease that even the current level of support could
drop to 0/nil/nada at any given anytime due to personal/accidental reason.

Are Quicknet and PostIncrement willing to do something about that?

Could you define who is the "competition" (from your previous email) and
explain why it should matter to the community?

Why do you think that we, our contributions and else should be kept under the
control of any corporation?

Guilhem.


                
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