[Freeswitch-users] Should I choose FreeSwitch?

Wed Sep 19 07:47:09 PDT 2007

It's ye old chicken and egg - from my point of view, I know asterisk 
very well (I'd like to think), but have a limited period of time in the 
day to examine / play / checkout other products.

The problem I faced was that although I got freeswitch up and running, 
it was taking too long to try and work out what was needed. So, I wasn't 
able to be helpful to others

Julian.

Anthony Minessale wrote:
> The important message from this thread is our apparent lack of documentation.  Many of our more complex features are undocumented but one of the main reasons that is the case is that unless we have people volunteering to use the features and help others with them we will be instantly overwhelmed with people who want to use the feature and have little or no interest in contributing anything back to the project.  It will be inevitable that we will have users of FreeSWITCH who give little back but I am not in a big hurry to invite this type of user while we are still in beta.  Our lack of documentation does add up to over 500 pages mind you so I would possibly suggest that we have a lack of a proper table of contents more than a lack of documentation.
> 
> So what I would like to do at this time is call on everyone out there on this mailing list to form a collaborative wiki page and to reply to this thread documenting what is missing from the documentation and what you would exactly like to see to be satisfied with the documentation.  Also if you could list every feature you know FreeSWITCH can do (I only tell a handful of people about certain features so once everyone writes them down you may be shocked).
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lucia Rotger <lrotger at aircomp.aero>
> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:20:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Should I choose FreeSwitch?
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> Thanks. As of now there are a lot of options. A BRI/SIP gateway has been  
> suggested but as I'm starting out I'd like to narrow things down and keep  
> it simple. I think I'll go with Asterisk (gasp) and keep an eye over here  
> so I'm aware of the developments. Unfortunately I cannot contribute code  
> but I will set up a FS at home and if it works, let it handle some lines  
> at the office after BRI support comes up eventually.
> 
> When I get the feeling of FS I'll contribute to the wiki, and I'm hoping  
> to make it better. What's needed is a good and accurate reference of  
> everything it can do, examples are secondary and if that's the only thing  
> you see about an option it lets you wondering what more there is to that  
> particular option. But I agree wholeheartedly that writing documentation  
> for beta code is difficult.
> 
> I've set up an account at pbxes, it's quite interesting.
> 
> Best regards
> Lucia
> 
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:54:30 +0200, Jonas Gauffin  
> <jonas.gauffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I've never used Asterix and FreeSwitch is my first softswitch. But
>> I've been programming applications for pbx:es for about 10 years. I've
>> done so for brands like Alcatel, Philips, Nec, Ascom and 3COM.
>>
>> I agree with you that the wiki is still very incomplete, but it's
>> updated quite often. If you miss anything, just ask in this list and
>> we'll update the wiki.
>>
>> Also, more are more providers give you the option to connect with SIP
>> instead of BRI.
>>
>> I really like FS and can recommend it. There are some things still
>> missing, but those will get implemented eventually.
>>
>> As you, I'm quite new to VOIP.
>>
>> //Jonas
>>
>> On 9/18/07, Lucia Rotger <lrotger at aircomp.aero> wrote:
>>> I have to implement a production software PBX. After some googling I  
>>> came
>>> out with two candidates: Asterisk and FreeSwitch.
>>>
>>> Asterisk looks like crap; granted, it's working in many installations  
>>> and
>>> seems to be readier for prime time. But just looking at their bugs puts  
>>> me
>>> away. Segfaults all over the place, crashes after handling a few hundred
>>> calls: in short, very poor, sloppy programming I think. Maybe I'm wrong
>>> here?
>>>
>>> I like the way things are handled here and I like the coding style a  
>>> lot.
>>> I think it's a matter of time FS becomes a great piece of software. Also
>>>  from looking at the bug tracker the issues don't seem to be like those
>>> plaguing Asterisk.
>>>
>>> What are your thoughts? apart from the obvious bias you have for FS  
>>> since
>>> you are here?
>>>
>>> I'd also like to read documentation if I have to consider FreeSwitch. I
>>> see the wiki is incomplete in many places. There are
>>> variables/applications I can't even begin to guess what they do.
>>>
>>> Also I'm aware that FS is a platform and Asterisk if just a PBX so its
>>> ambitions are greater; in fact I only want a PBX not a communications
>>> framework but as I've said above I feel Asterisk is going to be a lot of
>>> pain.
>>>
>>> The PBX will have to handle no more than 24 calls through 12 BRI  
>>> channels.
>>> The local phones will be SIP and the traffic will be mainly incoming  
>>> calls
>>> although outgoing calls will be made also. I've never touched anything
>>> VoIP so I'm a total newbie.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lucia Rotger
>>>
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