23 Jul
2013
23 Jul
'13
4:44 a.m.
Hi Holger,
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:36:44PM +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
* I started with specifying simple tasks and offering
guidance when
someone wants to implement that. One could go to Universities and
hacker spaces to find people motivated to try it. So if there is
1/10 success rate on such projects it would already be positive.
Good idea.
* Obstacles. One needs to have access to a base
station to do meaningful
work. Now thanks to you there are plenty of individuals with a BS11,
and then there are Nokia/Ericsson/nanoBTS and sysmoBTS out there. We
also have public events like the XXC3, Camp, OHM. So maybe we should
be more active in announcing that we want implementers at these
events?
Or maybe even hold a two day event in Berlin to ask
interested people
to implement things?
Might be worth trying, but I don't think there will be many people whom
we don't already know that would travel to Berlin just to work on some
code.
* Seek for monetary support. Sure some of our
commercial users, use
the software because it is of zero cost and would never pay a dime
for anything. But maybe there are others that want to contribute some
money for features? We could do some more ads that companies like
sysmocom offer high class, cost-effective customisations to OpenBSC.
I don't like that option. If at all, it would be the business interest
of such companies to do so (and they are free to do so), but not
something that should be advertised on / in relation to the OpenBSC
project and/or websites.
If at all, we could have a wiki page that contains a simple list of
businesses who are able to provide commercial customization / support /
R&D related to openbsc.
* Adopt a model like it is/was(?) used by PackageKit.
Contributors
do get direct access.. the public needs to wait a penalty time to
see the code. It makes it clear that value contributors more than
users.
I dislike that even more.
man regcomp, it is part of posix.
ok, thanks.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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