[Freeswitch-users] Are you planning on creating a "1.6 -> 1.8" upgrade notes document?

[Ken Rice]

The layout of the config files on the filesystem are not set in stone... The only thing set in stone is the base freeswitch.xml in your conf Directory.

This allows for flexibility in the actual config files in your config tree.

The changes Brian has been working on are based on just changing the config files. The config handling code in FreeSWITCH doesn’t require changes for this. As such, this does not affect someone copying their old configs into a master/1.8 install and just using them.

Any changes to actual config directives (which at this point I don’t think anything has actually changed) would be properly documented.

When it comes down to it the example configs we ship with FreeSWITCH, it's just an example of 1 way to do it.

Now back to the config changes Brian has been working on, As most of you are aware the FreeSWITCH team is quite small, and a project such as this requires many many person hours of work to maintain and continue adding new features. Brian put out a call for help from the community on this so that stake holders could help implement these changes and give feedback on them. However I don’t think he's received that much help on them and as such his other duties have slowed that project drastically. If you wish to help you can fork the git repo located at https://freeswitch.org/stash/projects/FS/repos/fs18configs/browse and propose pull requests.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Neulinger [mailto:nneul at mst.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 9:16 AM
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>; Ken Rice <krice at freeswitch.org>
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Are you planning on creating a "1.6 -> 1.8" upgrade notes document?

That's good.

I thought I remembered seeing something several months back about large structural changes in the config files/layout/etc. Maybe I misread something.

Will definitely give new branch a try soon.

-- Nathan

On 7/14/17 9:09 AM, Ken Rice wrote:
> There will probably be a Wiki page for this, however, I doubt there will be much on it. In reality, I don’t think there's any config breaking changes from 1.6 to master at this point, and master is already being staged for early 1.8 releases. We'll prob see beta releases of 1.8 very soon. If you want to help us on this effort, please checkout the master branch (packages are already available see confluence) and test away.
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> Ken
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> I remember moving from 1.4 to 1.6 there were several breaking behavior changes. Are you planning on doing anything to document specific known "you have to change X to Y" and "this behavior has changed" sort of document for sites upgrading from 1.6.x to 1.8.x?
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> -- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger                       nneul at mst.edu
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