Hi MC, Months ago we had tried the multi-language plugin on MediaWiki, I know you are still planning to do this but I just want how far it goes. Count me in when you are short of hand. On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
Demuel, Thanks for the input. Yes, we want to avoid chaos. I will work to keep everyone organized. I would welcome a mass of people all trying to do different things because the challenge would simply be to keep them organized. Right now the challenge is in recruiting people to stay with the not-so-glorious aspects of the project, namely documentation, maintenance, and janitorial style subprojects.
Please keep the comments and suggestions coming!
Thanks, MC
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM, <demuel@thephinix.org> wrote: Hi Michael / FS enthusiast,
In my opinion, it will be an undeniably perfect chaos if everyone wants to do everything. One way I can suggest out of this is the following:
- sets of persons that does all the stuff on the FS core. I'm not sure if this one will work out but I think these are the only persons who has commit access to the source code and will also be willing to accept modifications, enhancements, etc.
- individuals can ask if they can be the maintainer/tester for a particular module. Bug fixing, sending modifications and enhancements will still be subject to the approval of anthm.
- an array of persons that will take ownership on what FS can do and provide realiable working examples for it. Currently, it takes amount of pain for a newbie on how to configure SIP because the examples are too confusing and sometimes there is not certainty if this will work on what release of FS or not.
- any individual that has time and interest can start owning the porting of FS to other operating system. Like in my case, I am working on making FS ported to FreeBSD ports but I don't know if somebody did it or if he is currently doing it, as to what stage he is in?
- there should be a release engineering team. In my opinion, a stable and current release will be much more sane.
As with any other successful open source project, we won't be starting to say I want to contribute this and start working on that. We should indicate that you take ownership of this and any comments should be forwarded right unto you.
Again, this is just my opinion. You can take some of it or leave it using "sudo rm -rf blah/*" .
There and back again, Demuel I. Bendano a.k.a engrxyz
Hi Michael,
You can count with me for anything else, like documentation, coding/scripting, or any other FreeSWITCH related stuff.
Regards,
Diego
2009/9/14 João Mesquita <jmesquita@freeswitch.org>
You can assign two things to me.
1. libesl code documentation (partially done and Doxygened - needs cleaning) 2. Bug marshal. I am setting up the proper lab environment here to be able to test most stuff.
Count me in for any questions I can answer and I am _always_ on IRC
jmesquita
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Michael Collins <msc@freeswitch.org wrote:
Hello FreeSWITCHers!
We are looking for people who are in a position to help out with various subprojects that will help FreeSWITCH to keep growing. We need people to help out in these basic areas:
Bug marshals (people who watch JIRA and test bug reports, patches, etc.) Documentation maintainers (people who update the wiki when new stuff comes out, also those familiar with mediawiki administration) Documentation authors (people who write new docs, how-to's, tutorials, examples, etc.) Package maintainers (people who manage Debian debs, RPMs, etc.)
Additionally, we are always looking for more folks to assist with answering questions on IRC and the mailing list. It is definitely nice to have people who've gone through the pains of switching to FreeSWITCH (or learning it from scratch) who can assist the steady stream of new users.
If you want to help and aren't sure where to go from here then please at least do the following: #1 - Join #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net and hang out as much as possible #2 - Check the recent changes link on wiki.freeswitch.org each day #3 - Join the Friday public conference call and listen in These three things, in addition to the mailing list, will keep you well in tune with the FreeSWITCH community and what's happening.
Next, make a note of the parts of FS that you use frequently, know a lot about, or are particularly passionate about. Those are the items we'd love to have you help us with. For example: if you use mod_xml_curl frequently and have been through the set up process then you're a prime candidate to help answer questions, refine the mod_xml_curl wiki documentation, write up a tutorial, contribute a working example of a web server & database schema, etc. If you are good with a scripting language then we could definitely use help with rounding out the docs for your favorite language. We could also use code samples, so ask for a contrib folder if you have things you would like to share. Or how about this: you read something on the wiki, it doesn't quite work when you try, so you tinker until you figure it out. Now you're in a position to update the wiki for everyone else's benefit, too.
As you can see, you don't have to be a FreeSWITCH expert before you can help the project. What we really need are people who care about the project and want to see it flourish. If you are such a person then please contact me off list. Tell me what you're good at or where you would like to help.
Many thanks for all of your support! -Michael
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