[Freeswitch-users] differences between mod_fifo and asterisk queues

[François Delawarde]

Thanks for your quick&clear answers.


On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 10:55 -0500, Anthony Minessale wrote:

> If you are using on-hook agents, it will place as many outbound calls
> as there are people waiting.
> If you are using off-hook agents it will just connect the first free
> agent.

By "people waiting" you mean "calls in the queue" and not "agents
waiting" right?

>  
>         - Is there an [easy] way (with some javascript or similar) to
>         "emulate" Asterisk's distribution strategies to agents (by
>         amount of time without calls, total number of answered calls,
>         round robing, ...) in this cases?
>         
> 
> Easiest way would be to write a patch in C to mod_fifo it'self or
> propose a bounty for features and see if you can get the change
> approved by the developers.

I'll give the patch a try once I have a bit more practice with
FreeSWITCH (never even launched it yet) and its API. Any hints or
"quick-start" guides for module writing?

François.