Re: [Sipwitch-devel] Sipwitch Status and Documentation

[Haakon Meland Eriksen]

Hi, Gernot!

You are quite right that we need to update our documentation at 
www.gnutelephony.org .

In the orange box on the front page are installation instructions for GNU SIP 
Witch 1.2.x for Debian 6.x Squeeze. By first using the package manager and 
adding the source of our packages, you can install sipwitch and its plugins 
the way you normally install packages.

After installation, you might benefit from visiting a newer article than the 
one you mentioned, called "GNU SIP Witch configuration" - see link in orange 
box. Here you can download an example configuration file to try in  your own 
network. 

I use CSipSimple on my Android devices as clients myself, but since GNU SIP 
Witch uses the open standard SIP to communicate, you should be able to use 
other standard compliant clients as well.

The primary development of all GNU Telephony tools happens on Debian, Fedora 
and Ubuntu in that order, but it is mostly automated. There are some 
differences between these distributions, and as you pointed out our 
documentation needs updating. I would like to say when I will be able to do 
that, but I'm afraid a better approach will be to watch the orange box on the 
front page for news items from time to time.

We recently discovered a bug in a not much used plugin, and this plugin was 
autoloaded on some systems, which caused the CPU load to spike. I would 
suggest people who have experienced this problem try again.

Our source archive is at www.gnutelephony.org/archive , but a nice way to keep 
up with current development is to add our Github RSS-feed to your feed reader 
or browser - https://github.com/dyfet.atom

The mailing list is one way of contacting us if you need help. Another is 
joining us at http://friendica.gnutelephony.org/ , our Friendica instance - 
you are most welcome! Here we talk about a lot of other things as friends, and 
not just GNU Telephony.

Friendica is a decentralized and federated social network, and GNU Telephony 
has started developing an initial plugin to integrate chat and VoIP into 
Friendica through GNU SIP Witch.

In addition to Friendica, we want to create an Android client - you can see 
our proposed GUI at http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_Free_Call_GUI . 
Hopefully, this will not be too difficult to use.

If this was helpful, and you manage to get up and running, perhaps - in time - 
you can help out improving the documentation, offer more configuration examples 
and so on? That would be most helpful.

Yours sincerely,
Haakon Meland Eriksen, GNU Free Call, project coordinator