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FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 29 Apr '13

29 Apr '13

Hello Friends, We are looking forward to a busy but good week of activity. Last week was busy as well. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_24>we had an engineer from JiraSoft <http://www.jerasoft.net/products/vcs/index.html> join us to answer some questions about the newly released VCS 2.4.3. We are happy to have this new version as part of the FreeSWITCH ecosystem<http://freeswitch.org/node/447>. This week <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_05_01> we welcome Omar from OrecX <http://www.orecx.com/>. OrecX creates commercial and open source telephony recording solutions. We look forward to learning more about how we can use OrecX with FreeSWITCH. One other bit of good news: All of the content for the new FreeSWITCH book<http://www.packtpub.com/freeswitch-1-2/book>has been submitted to the publishers. We are doing a bit of editing on one of the chapters but otherwise we are basically done. We anticipate a June release. Take care and have another fantastic week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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mod_lua speed up
by Vicente Hernando 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hello, looking at src/mod/languages/mod_lua/mod_lua.cpp I see executing lua_init lua_uninit at the beginning and end of every function, then a lua script is loaded from a buffer, compiled and executed. Another approach could be loading some lua scripts at the beginning and compile them. Then create a pool of lua states. Now everytime lua_init is called, instead of initializing lua again, it would take a lua state from the pool if available, otherwise it would create a new one. lua_uninit would reintegrate a lua state into the pool again. At the end, when module is finished being used, the whole pool should be freed. Do you thing it is a worthwhile idea or a crazy idea? Any points? Thanks in advance, Vicente.

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FreeSWITCH Community Conference Call Today
by Michael Collins 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hello all, Today's agenda is here: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_24 The folks from JeraSoft will be doing a presentation on their routing/billing solution that works with FreeSWITCH. Talk to you soon! -- Michael S Collins Twitter: @mercutioviz http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org

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Jira and the PasteBin... [Please READ ME]
by Ken Rice 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hey Guys, Please keep the following things in mind. Bugs should be reported via Jira. Yes its ok to ask on the mailing list to see if it you are just doing something wrong, but please open a bug on Jira if its a bug. A segfault is always a bug. (Even if you are doing it wrong, FreeSWITCH should not segfault) The Pastebin is a useful tool for sharing information between people, but please do not reference pastebin URLs in Jira Tickets. Pastebin entries are not guaranteed to survive for any period of time, and they can and will disappear at some point. This means of you open a ticket and you put a backtrace in the pastebin, if the pastebin is cleared so is your backtrace. (if you use the fscore_pb script to help collect the data, there is a download link right on the pastebin that will let you download a .txt file for that entry which you can then attach to the ticket ) Please Attach to jira ticket all backtraces, sip traces and logs as plain text files ( .txt files ) Also, please do not paste the results into the notes or the description of the issue. This just means we have to scroll down 97 screens of stuff to get the last notes on a ticket. These simple things will help out the developers and help make the bugs go away faster! Thanks! K -- Ken http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org irc.freenode.net #freeswitch

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FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

A belated welcome to the week of April 22! News and notes is a day late because I spent all day yesterday working on the new FreeSWITCH book <http://www.packtpub.com/freeswitch-1-2/book>. Good news - we have submitted all the content! It's now just a matter of getting all the edits and reviews done. We're a little more than halfway through that process. We'll update you as more news becomes available. Last week we had a conference call that<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_17>lasted quite a while. Dave Kompel showed us some tricks with using MS Visual Studio 2012 to build FreeSWITCH applications. That discussion dovetailed into a more general discussion about some of the other things Dave has been doing with FreeSWITCH under Windows. In the weeks and months ahead, Dave will be doing some more Windows-only discussions outside of the main weekly conference call. Keep an eye on the mailing list<http://lists.freeswitch.org>for more announcements. Tomorrow we have scheduled an engineer from JeraSoft<http://www.jerasoft.net/products/vcs/index.html>who will be talking about their routing and billing solution that has been tightly integrated with FreeSWITCH 1.2. If you have FreeSWITCH in a production environment where billing and routing are core elements then this discussion <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_24> will definitely be of interest. Have a great rest of the week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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Hunting down bugs with git bisect
by Michael Collins 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

Hello gang! I'm soliciting feedback on this topic: using git bisect to find "the commit that broke it." I am particularly interested in anyone who has automated the process so that it will build, test, pull, build, test, pull, etc. automatically without human intervention. If you've done anything like that please let us know. I'd like to see git bisect used more for people who are reporting bugs with phrases like, "It stopped working when I updated so I went back to the old git version and it works fine there." Thanks! -- Michael S Collins Twitter: @mercutioviz http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org

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Jira Open Tickets and Patches (IMPORTANT INFORMATION)
by Ken Rice 19 Apr '13

19 Apr '13

For the last several weeks Ray and myself have embarked on a weekly meeting to go thru the outstanding tickets on Jira and work toward resolution on them. We have asked for reporters to provide updated information on many of them and a good number of those reporters have responded. To those that have updated their tickets as requested Thank You! To those ignoring the the requests for more information, if you have not responded to requests for more information within 14 days, your ticket will likely be closed unless you respond. This policy will be enforced on a ticket by ticket basis. With the core team making the final call. At some point in the future we will likely automate this process. Now, that being said, the goal here is not to just reduce the number of open tickets, but to make sure we are focusing efforts where we can actually do something about it. -- Ken http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org irc.freenode.net #freeswitch

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Vestec ASR example apps
by Michael Collins 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello all! Has anyone out there been using Vestec ASR? I need to gather some basic how-to stuff to create a Vestec section on our wiki. We are gearing up for the Vestec ASR app contest and I am hoping to lower the barrier to entry for entrants by having a really nice "get-you-started" wiki page. Please email me off-list if you have done anything with Vestec and are willing to share some examples. Thanks! -- Michael S Collins Twitter: @mercutioviz http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org

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FreeSWITCH Community Conference Call Today
by Michael Collins 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello all! Today's community conference call agenda is here: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_17 Today we will be using MS Visual Studio 2012 to build rapidly FreeSWITCH applications. We look forward to hearing from Dave Kompel on this discussion. -- Michael S Collins Twitter: @mercutioviz http://www.FreeSWITCH.org http://www.ClueCon.com http://www.OSTAG.org

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FreeSWITCH Weekly News and Notes
by Michael Collins 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

Greetings! Happy tax day to those in the USA - we hope all is well with your business. Speaking of business, I thought I would relay the interesting news<http://www.cnbc.com/id/100637184>about Dish Network making a bid for Sprint. Many here in North America will be keeping a close eye on this one. Whether or not this is just a big mess<http://www.zdnet.com/softbank-sprint-clearwire-dish-figuring-out-this-merge…>or an opportunity for Sprint to become a "real" competitor to AT&T and Verizon remains to be seen. Regardless of the outcome, most of us here are hoping for a healthier Sprint so that we can avoid another duopoly. On last week's conference call<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_10>we decided to have a preliminary discussion so that we can prepare for this week <http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/FS_weekly_2013_04_17>. Dave Kompel will be showing us how to build rapidly FreeSWITCH applications in MS Visual Studio 2012 and have those run under mod_managed<http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_managed>. Be sure to consult this document<http://download.drknetworking.com/MeetingPreparation.pdf>so that you can get all the prerequisites installed in time for our call on Wednesday. In other news I would like to let everyone know that I spoke with Kashif Kahn over at Vestec <http://www.vestec.com>. We are gearing up for the automatic speech recognition application building contest. The winners will be announced at ClueCon 2013 <http://www.cluecon.com>. The official contest page will be posted on the ClueCon website shortly. Stay tuned for more information and be ready to start building your ASR applications! The ClueCon 2013 call for speakers recently went out and we've had a number of submissions already. We look forwarding to hearing more talk ideas, so please send those in right away. In the meantime ClueCon registration<http://www.cluecon.com/register/>is now open so be sure to get signed up, and don't forget to book your room at the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile <http://www.cluecon.com/hotels/>hotel for only $169 per night. Have a great week! -- Michael S Collins ClueCon Team http://www.cluecon.com 877-7-4ACLUE

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