Nathan Hawkins wrote:

>Nathan C. Smith wrote:
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>>What's going on?
>>
>>A lot of people dropping by irc.freenode.net #openpbx asking "are you guys
>>still around"?  Yes, we are still here, help us spread the word, give us a
>>try, blog your experience.
>>
>>OpenPBX.org is scheduled to release a 0.2 release on April 1.  It looks like
>>it is going to be a bit rough.  OpenPBX.org certainly makes and takes calls
>>and some people are having success using 0.2 or something like it in
>>production.
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>My company is testing it for production deployment. I think it's likely
>we will upgrade to it because of the timer work in OpenPBX. We only use
>SIP, and want to run it in Xen, so getting rid of zaptel dependacy is a
>nearly a killer app for us all by itself.
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>>Testers are needed right up to and after the release.  We have people
>>testing on Debian, Ubuntu, Centos and Fedora but we need more testers,
>>especially people who are interested in some of the obscure components still
>>included with OpenPBX.org.  If you find a bug or anomaly please report it on
>>trac.openpbx.org or at least mention it to one of the lists.
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>I made a .deb for internal use, and noted that the various directory
>paths couldn't all be set by configure. That's a nuisense to packagers,
>and will cause groups like Debian to maintain patches just to do that.
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>It works well with Ubuntu 5.10.
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>>The installation of OpenPBX.org is a bit of a challenge and would certainly
>>drive off newbies.  It takes a little bit of work to round up all the
>>requirements, get security set correctly and all.  If anyone would like to
>>try to streamline that it would be appreciated.  
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>The library dependacies are a pain, especially spandsp.
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Re-using well developed existing packages was the entire reason for 
openpbx's existance. If you think library dependencies are a pain, try 
managing a project 10 times the size it should be. This is exactly what 
has happened with Asterisk.

>One thing that could certainly use work is documentation.
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Regards,
Steve

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