Is RIFE dead?
I wrote a blog entry in April 2007 about RIFE. It has been 2 years since I wrote that entry. I had mentioned that RIFE was lacking in documention and the learning curve was pretty steeep. That was one of the resons why I decided not to investigate further. Geert tried to calrify some of the questions I had, but that didn’t really remove all the doubts I had. I know that Geert has moved on to bigger and better things. The framework seems to be dead now as there hasn’t been any new releases since 2007. This goes to show that with too much complexity, it is very difficult to build a community that can sustain the project beyond the original founders. It was a framework built on some very good concepts and I am sad to see it go. I do see some nightly snapshots, but no new releases. Is RIFE really dead?
