[Freeswitch-users] Status of mod_skinny? is it being maintained?

Abaci abaci64 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 14 18:57:38 MSK 2013


why shouldn't mod_skinny do it the same way mod_sofia is doing it, not 
that it can' be done in dialplan but it's sometimes much simpler and 
easier to implement in the user directory.

On Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:09:48 AM, Michael Jerris wrote:
> This shouldn't be anything at all in mod_skinny.  You would use dialplan to do all of this.  Just set the timeouts, hangup_after, continue_on, etc… and have the next dialplan entries go to voicemail.
>
> On Mar 13, 2013, at 8:34 PM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu> wrote:
>
>> Main concerns right now is it seems like some pretty critical functionality is missing - right now, doesn't seem to be
>> any way to get calls to roll over to voicemail.
>>
>> I've been able to come up with ways to work around other limitations (like the variables not coming in from the user
>> directory entry), but haven't been able to find any way yet to get voicemail to work.
>>
>> I'll certainly be looking at the code with intent to make improvements, but there's some learning curve involved in
>> knowing how the rest of the system works.
>>
>> For the voicemail stuff - seems like if there would be a way to just get the bridge to skinny to fall through
>> (hangup_after_bridge,continue_on_fail) with some sort of failure/status code set - I could always check the status with
>> a condition afterwards and route to voicemail that way.
>>
>> -- Nathan
>>
>> On 03/13/2013 12:13 PM, Anthony Minessale wrote:
>>> I asked the author of the module and here is his response:
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> mod_skinny hasn't seen updates since long time because my dev machines
>>> are in a bad shape since that time (and for other reasons : I'm
>>> building a new house). The main reason is lack of time.
>>>
>>> Mod_skinny is stable and works for me. There are currently 8 issues in
>>> Jira. Only one (FS-4321) may be critical (but there is a patch
>>> attached).
>>>
>>> Appart from that, contributions are welcome. I think the code is clean
>>> enough to allow easy hacking. There is a TODO:
>>> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_skinny/Development#TODO
>>>
>>> Summary: I won't contribute features soon, but others may do (and I
>>> can help them understand the code).
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> 2013/3/13 Mathieu Parent <math.parent at gmail.com <mailto:math.parent at gmail.com>>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     My impression from this is that the skinny support is operating very differently - it almost appears as if the
>>>     user/directory entry isn't getting used at all, it's only being referenced as a source for some of the skinny
>>>     configuration.
>>>
>>>     Log:
>>>     http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/20685
>>>
>>>     Portion of dialplan that is getting hit:
>>>     http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/20686
>>>
>>>     User directory entry:
>>>     http://pastebin.freeswitch.org/20687
>>>
>>>
>>>     -- Nathan
>>>
>>>     On 03/12/2013 03:55 PM, Michael Collins wrote:
>>>> I'm not up on mod_skinny, but this sounds like possibly the user isn't authorized and therefore the variables in the
>>>> user's directory entry aren't getting added. The best way to tell is to look at the console log of a user making
>>>     a phone
>>>> call. Is is being handled in context "default" or context "public"? (This is assuming you're starting with the
>>>     vanilla
>>>> configs and working from there.)
>>>>
>>>> If you'd like to share then use our pb: pastebin.freeswitch.org <http://pastebin.freeswitch.org>
>>>     <http://pastebin.freeswitch.org> and select "FreeSWITCH
>>>> Log" as the syntax highlighting. The folks here can assist you with learning the ropes on debugging.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> MC
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Nathan Neulinger <nneul at mst.edu <mailto:nneul at mst.edu> <mailto:nneul at mst.edu
>>>     <mailto:nneul at mst.edu>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     It's actually working fine, though one issue. Shared line appearances, busy lamp, transfers, etc. all operating
>>>>     correctly.
>>>>
>>>>     The one piece I was trying to get to work and isn't was adding a variable (toll_allow) to the user directory
>>>     entry for
>>>>     the skinny phone - but it doesn't seem to take effect. When I started looking around and saw that nothing had
>>>     been
>>>>     touched in mod_skinny, was a little concerned that it may no longer have an active maintainer.
>>>>
>>>>     -- Nathan
>>>>
>>>>     On 03/12/2013 09:54 AM, Erik Dekkers wrote:
>>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>>>
>>>>> As far as I know mod_skinny just works. Although there no recent development I suggest to give it a change.
>>>>> Just take a few SCCP phones, connect them to a freeswitch box and see for yourself if it suit your needs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, please read the wiki on mod_skinny. There's enough information to get it working. Otherwise you can
>>>     contact
>>>>     me on IRC (wvds-nl) and I will be glad to help you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Erik
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>>>>> Onderwerp: [Freeswitch-users] Status of mod_skinny? is it being maintained?
>>>>>
>>>>> Started looking around at the git log for mod_skinny after putting in a jira issue on it, and noticed that it
>>>>     hasn't been directly touched since around Dec 2011.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it being worked on at all or is the lack of changes just due to "nothing really broke, but no new
>>>     development
>>>>     taking place"?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking at a possible large (1600+) phone deployment (replacement of old CCM deployment) using almost all
>>>>     SCCP based Cisco phones and just want to know what the status is since it looks like SCCP development on
>>>     Asterisk is
>>>>     actively ongoing. I started with Freeswitch based on others recommendations, but if the core support for
>>>     cisco isn't
>>>>     actively maintained, it would probably be a mistake for us to go that direction.
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Nathan
>>>>>
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