Re: [Sipwitch-devel] Sipwitch Status and Documentation

[Lee Azzarello]

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On 02/25/2012 02:02 AM, Gernot Super wrote:
> Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately theres nothing new for me
> there. I think i already read all public available documentation about
> SIPWITCH - even your ubuntu 11.04 manual.
> I would be very happy if you guys could update the documentation by
> adding more examples, i.e. i want to VOIP with a friend over the
> internet via Jitsi and a step by step config for SIPWITCH would be very
> nice.
> 
> Already tried to register at http://friendika.gnutelephony.org/login two
> weeks ago, but did not get approved by the admin so far.
> 
> Well, i want to try it out, but without further documentation i cannot
> do that. I wonder how i could if even a expierienced hacker needs some
> days to get it up and running (http://lee.rockingtiger.com/ - too bad
> the announced manual isn't online yet).

Hello Gernot,

I'm the experienced hacker you referred to. I agree that the
documentation is lacking. I ended up reading the source code to discover
some of the configuration options that are not documented. I like the
Sipwitch project and I think the documentation will improve in time.
Despite the 1.0 release version label, I consider the software in a beta
stage. It's functional but requires more expertise to get a stable
system running than I would expect for "stable" software.

I'm moving my R&D project ( https://guardianproject.info/wiki/OSTN ) to
evaluate Freeswitch, so I'm not going to be engaged with Sipwitch for a
few months. I do plan to come back to it and would like to improve the
configuration process at that time.

Best,
Lee

> 
> Greets, Gernot
> 
> 
> 
> Am 24.02.2012 21:40, schrieb 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
>>
>>
> 

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