I would like to announce that FreeSWITCH will be entering
into a BETA status within the week so we can produce a series of release candidates which will ultimately produce a formal release by the end of the summer or sooner if possible.

Our software is growing rapidly and we've come a long way from our modest initial public release in January of 2006. I hope everyone enjoys the opportunity to participate in the development process which is one of the best benefits of open source software in my opinion. Not only do we have a few finishing touches to put on the code, we also have to institute a version policy, make sure the WIKI is accurate and, of course, find all the bugs so we can focus our energy on forward development and stay away from nasty unresolved bugs.

In order to make the debugging process successful we ask that everyone use our jira tracker for all bug reports http://jira.freeswitch.org, feature requests, or feature contributions. We are glad to help but it's beginning to be more than we can handle in real-time so we really need to document issues on the tracker so we won't forget!

We also ask anyone who receives help to please pay it forward and document it on the WIKI http://wiki.freeswitch.org. There are plenty of logistical and clerical necessities to make FreeSWITCH a success so anyone who is interested in helping out by being a bug marshal or managing the svn for one of the modules or any way you think you can help, please mail the dev list http://lists.freeswitch.org or visit us on IRC. Please also feel free to start a new page on the wiki with your irc nick and your paypal address or wishlist urls so when you help someone they can show their gratitude properly.

Thank you all for participating and making FreeSWITCH a fun project!