[Freeswitch-users] differences between mod_fifo and asterisk queues

[Michael S Collins]

On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:34 AM, François Delawarde <fdelawarde at wirelessmundi.co 
m> wrote:

> 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?
>
There are some developer docs on the wiki. Nothing truly comprehensive  
but enough to get you going. Also see mod_skel in the source tree.

-MC