[Freeswitch-users] Bug: sleep can't be called inline, contrary to doc

[Peter Olsson]

Harry, this list is not meant to be a closed community for long time users. I believe most of us tries to help out as much as possible, for all kinds of users. However, we do get lots of bugreports to the list - which makes it really hard to follow, that's why we always want to have this in Jira instead.

I this case the actual "bug" was in the documentation, and I think it would be more appropiate to send a question to the list if this is as intended or not (since you're a new user to FS), and not start by using the subject "Bug".

If you're unsure of something, please send a question to the list. If you find a bug, please report it to Jira.

/Peter
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Skickat: den 26 februari 2012 20:59
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Ämne: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Bug: sleep can't be called inline, contrary to doc

On 2/26/2012 1:36 PM, Ken Rice wrote:
> When the software clearly states you cant do that in an error message that's
> how you know... This is why I said it looks more like an error in the
> documentation...

Kindly consider that your answer could as easily have been 'the
precompiled freeswitch package you're using is out of date, the wiki is
correct and the latest software reflects that'.     I'm too new to have
confidence enough in this package to be editing wikis for all to read.


>
> Then on the bug reporting, since you were trying to report a bug on the
> mailing list I pointed out to you and everyone else the proper way to report
> a bug as outline on the wiki and an Email I sent out not 2 weeks ago
> regarding such matters...

Which advice I did follow, and thank you for it.  The folk who have
confidence enough in their knowledge of this package have already made
due corrections and new folk like me in the future won't be misled by
wrong documentation.   I wasn't a member of this mailing list two weeks
ago, nor was I confident enough in my knowledge of freeswitch to know
whether what I saw was a bug worthy of reportage.  It could have easily
been me not doing something 'just obvious' to long time users.   Just
like I'm trying to decide whether a the choice of 'bypass_media=true /
false' works when extensions access the dialplain,  but 'true' there
fails to dial out when that same dialplan is called via loopback is an
understanding gap on my part or a bug.

>
> Not to mention FreeSWITCH has an extensive mailing list history that's
> actively archived at several place and heavily indexed by google...
FWIW I did and do look first there.

Maybe I should look for a 'freeswitch new users list', I don't mean to
burden what appears to be a close knit community of long time users.

Harry