Astricon, A Time for Celebration
russellb September 9th, 2008
Astricon is just a few weeks away. I am as excited as ever about this year’s event. To me, the event is perfect for the Asterisk community to get together and celebrate what we have accomplished over the past year.
In the land of Asterisk development, much has been accomplished. For example:
- 6 version updates for Asterisk 1.2
- 12 version updates for Asterisk 1.4
- Heavy development on Asterisk 1.6, with the release of 1.6.0 just days away
- 3413 total number of changes to Asterisk trunk, for the development of Asterisk 1.6
- An impressive list of New Features
So, after a year of focus on the Asterisk code, I’m ready to get out and meet up with the Asterisk community. I will be spending as much time as possible in the code zone. I love hearing all of the stories of success and new Asterisk applications that I have never thought of. I get most of my inspiration for what new things to work on from these discussions at Astricon. I want to find great ideas, as well as the people that can help conceptualize and bring them to reality. I hope to see you there, so that I can hear your story, and your ideas, as well.
Finally, I would like to share an interesting video. This is a visualization of the development activity on Asterisk trunk since the beginning of the project created using code_swarm. The names you see are developers that have direct access to change the Asterisk code. Contributions come from all over the world, and from close 500 developers, and get merged into the code by the core development team shown in this video.
The dots you see are files. Files that are being changed swarm around the developers that are changing them. Developers and files fade away over time as their activity goes down.
I think that this video does a great job in showing how the activity in the Asterisk development community has really taken off over time. The rate of contributions is still growing rapidly. The Asterisk development community is certainly an exciting place to be!
About the Author
Russell Bryant is currently the Engineering Manager of the Asterisk Development Team at Digium, Inc. He has been involved in the Asterisk project since 2004, and has contributed in many ways, from project management to core architectural design and development. He graduated from Clemson University in the Fall of 2006 with a Bachelor's degree in Com… more about russellb
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Since I saw a couple of good changes/features in Asterisk new version 1.6 here:
http://www.syednetworks.com/asterisk-1-6-features
And I upgraded to new version but I faced two different issues:
1. Since i’m using Digium telephony card TDM410 FXO, so after installation I tried to check zap status with “zap” commands on CLI but unfortunately i couldn’t get chan_zap.so module? what package provides me this?
2. My second problem is my zaptel hardwares are dropping some warnings for echo cancellation. I guess new version doesn’t support echo cancellation or what?
please someone guide me with this. Thanks