Ron Byer Jr. wrote: > David, et al. > > Agreed. Nice job looking forward. > > A couple of observations: > > 1) Digium recently announced that they are also going to > distribute freePBX as an option with their AsteriskNOW distribution. > Now, freePBX is a fine tool, but it has no place on an appliance. That > means that the Asterisk-gui is now more closely aligned to the appliance > world. Astlinux and asterisk-gui should work hand-in-glove. > > 2) Generally agreed that Lonnie’s web interface (p.k.a alt-web ?) > should and can focus on system facilities and configuration, and leave > Asterisk-related stuff to the Asterisk-gui. It will be very enticing to > fill a hole in the Asterisk-gui feature-set (for instance, the CDR > viewer, or blacklist support) in the Astlinux web interface, only to > have the Asterisk-Gui come out with same in the next release or two. Not > the end of the world, but there is no sense doing redundant work at the > end of the day. (I speak with some experience here… 3-4 months ago, we > took the CDR viewer from the alt-web and put it in the asterisk-gui). > Now there is an asterisk-gui CDR viewer in the works. > > 3) It is probably inevitable that duplication should occur, but it > can probably be minimized by communicating with the asterisk-gui folks, > Brandon and Pari. It may make sense to fill a hole with an asterisk-gui > contribution to reduce the probability of duplication.
The asterisk-gui is greatly improved from previous versions. However, one major thing that peeved me off a bit is how it reads included files into the original file. Instead of having a clean setup like I had before, all of the files that I had included in /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf are now IN that file. (so just a warning to anyone trying this out--BACKUP YOUR CONFIG FILES!!!) I'm not sure if there is a way to overcome that or if it matters. I guess if you're going to use the gui, use the gui and don't expect to do much manually. That being said, I do like seeing the input and discussion on the list. Astlinux is flexible enough for the end user to chose how he wants to configure things. Darrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
