Hi all... let me say something on this nice topic :)
Marco Menardi wrote:
Hi, I see that the vISDN creator, Orlandi, is long long time that does not post messages here, nor answers personal e-mails, AFAIK.
Yes. that's for 2 reasons: Vihai works with us (voismart) and he's full time busy with gsm card development (25% of time), visdn rewriting (75% of time). I think he's not answering since coding is taking a lot of time... and he prefers ending the rewrite sooner rather than answering emails. Also because many issues the ML reported will no longer exists in the new "visdn".
The changelog shows that the isdn part is no more developed since long long time, all the patches being made against the vgsm module only. Hanging without direction this way for so long is not acceptable any longer, OMHO, so a decision has to be made.
you're free to make any decision , of course. But I suggest to wait...
Would like to know the list opinion on this, and what developing forces and competences (and time to dedicate) we have, so we can consider if a fork is possible or if we better go to mISDN instead and leave visdn on it's own. Would be certainly a pity, but I see no more options at the moment.
A lot of knowledge is needed to take over visdn development... not only kernel programming but also isdn stuff and so on. I think that for sure someone is capable of doing this, but certain knowledge is not so common. As I wrote before... 75% of vihai time is about visdn rewriting... this rewrite has not touched the isdn protocol stuff (q921/q931) but mainly the "voice" part, to be more general, to be able to interconnect different hw (eg a dsp board to an hfc pcm bus...), better EC, no more voice delay issues and so on... The "new" visdn will have a different name (maybe) and the isdn/gsm will be something that will use the new infrastructure. So . told that, when all this stuff will be ready? Our gsm card driver is already running on the new infrastructure... (this happened 2 weeks ago) Orlandi is now porting the hfc & isdn channel driver also... a voice call has also been made :) So please wait... I'm sure that everyone will not be disappointed... cya, Matteo. _______________________________________________ Visdn-hackers mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uli.it/mailman/listinfo/visdn-hackers
