Moc passed the mantle to me the other day, and I am very excited to get started re-invigorating this project. Jonathan Smith will probably also be along in a little bit to introduce his ideas as well. I live in ULAW land so my ALAW and ISDN brothers should feel free to educate me where necessary.
The shakedown is past us and people who are still in OpenPBX.org appear to be here for the "long haul". So if you were wavering on whether to stick with OpenPBX.org, or commit something - code/time etc., please consider doing so again. By my count we have at least 12 people actively working with the code in one way or another and a small buzzing of interest from new developers all the time. The different people involved all have their own reasons for being involved and many have their own projects, all of which will be addressed in time. Many of us with the project want something that works now, and others want the freedom to add functionality. Here are the broad over-arching goals as I see them: (no particular order) * Set specific goals or milestones. * Continue to clean and cut the code. * Produce a stable, scalable soft-pbx with a more modular architecture. * Friendly relations with *all* hardware suppliers * Improvements to SIP/RTP implementation - our library should become the one others want to use. * SS7 * Robust IAX implementation. * Maintain cross-platform capability as long as it is reasonable to do so. * Excellent documentation * GUIs for newbies(long term) * Builds - either nightly or on commit * Formal testing plan and process for carrying it out. * Jitter buffers all around * Regular releases I am open to suggestions about what should be included in the first release, but here is my current list: * generators perfected/corrected * Fix basic functionality - transfers, etc. * Make decision to reduce the initial feature set/complexity * Formulate a plan to rebuild feature set with more modularity * decision on whether to merge in existing branches * feature freeze after the above decision is made. Clearly there is a lot to do and I'm certain others will have things to add that I have obviously missed. OpenPBX.org should drop the animosity toward other softPBX systems, and gently distance ourselves from the Freeswitch project as they take on their own identity and importance. I ask you to please help me with whatever contributions you can make as we improve the state of OpenPBX.org. This is your project, you are the developers, I'm just here to keep the train on the track. We have a great opportunity and a lot of smart people to make a really worthwhile project. -Nathan Smith AKA "spackle" We'd like to get an OpenPBX.org conference bridge on line soon for regular developer conferences as well as a developer channel in IRC that people who want to seriously discuss the code can use. _______________________________________________ Openpbx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
