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?
plasma said,
July 2, 2009 @ 12:40 pm
I just killed RIFE with my RIFLE. You still into opensource and linux. do you know that there are only 1.1% of the folks in OS community who are real code writer and contributor. I wonder if there are crucial patches to the Linux Kernel that didn’t get in because Linus had a bad day when the patch was submitted? Anyway i did contributed to few OS projects and then i realized that it is not worth it unless you are going to use it for real purpose. Of the roughly 150,000 open-source projects on SourceForge.net, an online hub for open-source software projects, only a few hundred are active, and fewer still will ever lead to a useful product. It;s like you wirte a interface or abstract class and go on vacation. And during your vacation all the 98.9% people think that there is bug or something wrong with the project.
chou .. How is your barbecue going now a days?