matteo brancaleoni wrote:

> 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.
> 

Oh, that's the best news I think everyone would have liked to hear :)
If you consider that then last message of Orlandi in the list is of SIX
months ago, if I'm not wrong (13/06/2006), you can easely understand our
feelings.
If he will take just some minutes a week to keep us updated or with some
alpha/beta code to test, it will be very good for us and for visdn.
Thanks a lot to you, Orlandi and Voismart, with the hope to hear further
news soon and on a regular basis.
Ciao Marco
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