FAD Fedora Talk 2009 IRC meeting, 2009-10-06 UTC 1900

[Paul W. Frields]

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  http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-fad/2009-10-06/fedora-fad.2009-10...

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Meetbot didn't capture John's topic changes, so I've inserted them in
the copy of the minutes below.

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#fedora-fad: Fedora Activity Day - Fedora Talk 2009
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Meeting started by stickster at 19:00:30 UTC. The full logs are
available at
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-fad/2009-10-06/fedora-fad.2009-10...
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Meeting summary
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* roll call  (stickster, 19:01:44)

* Travel  (stickster, 19:02:57)

* Asterisk version  (stickster, 19:03:59)
  * LINK: http://infrastructure.fedoraproject.org has various and sundry
    repos for stuff.  (jds2001, 19:10:28)
  * AGREED: The general Fedora repos for F-12 and previous will stay on
    Asterisk 1.6.1  (stickster, 19:10:59)
  * AGREED: The Infrastructure repo will include Asterisk 1.6.2, which
    anyone can add to their F-12 box and install the package for
    testing/development.  (stickster, 19:11:58)
  * ACTION: jcollie to ensure Asterisk 1.6.2 is available in
    Infrastructure repo before this Saturday, 2009-10-10.  (stickster,
    19:13:28)

* Underlying OS  (stickster, 19:14:04)
  * AGREED: The underlying OS for F-Talk will be F-12, running the
    infrastructure repo's pkg of Asterisk 1.6.2.x  (stickster, 19:14:30)

* Up-front work  (stickster, 19:15:29)
  * AGREED: The more we can learn and set up before we get together, the
    faster we can get to work on Friday morning.  (stickster, 19:17:23)
  * Fedora Talk now has an echo service on ext. 1002  (stickster,
    19:20:04)
  * AGREED: jcollie is super-awesome regardless of whether he set up
    echo himself or not :-)  (stickster, 19:21:18)
  * ACTION: mmcgrath to build asterisk2 as a F-12 box  (stickster,
    19:24:36)
  * AGREED: mmcgrath's rebuild of asterisk2 will include asterisk-1.6.1
    right now, and will be updated when 1.6.2 is available in the infra
    repo  (stickster, 19:26:57)
  * asterisk1 box is using asterisk-1.4.22.1-1.el5, so config
    differences may be an issue. We'll need to look at that  (stickster,
    19:28:53)
  * ACTION: stickster to apply for sysadmin-tools to gain access to
    asterisk2  (stickster, 19:32:07)
  * To get started, do 'yum install asterisk
    asterisk-sounds-core-en-ulaw'  (stickster, 19:36:31)

* Getting to know Asterisk, etc.  (poelcat, 19:38)
  * ACTION: : poelstra to find link to pdf version of O'Reilly Asterisk
    book  (poelcat, 19:40:59)
  * ACTION: : read chaps: 4, 5, 10, and 6... test on Monday!  (poelcat,
    19:41:21)
  * LINK: http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf
    (jcollie, 19:41:30
     0K ..)
  * LINK: http://www.the-asterisk-book.com/   (mmcgrath, 19:41:38)
  * book download link
    http://downloads.oreilly.com/books/9780596510480.pdf  (poelcat,
    19:41:48)
  * LINK: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Fedora_Talk_2009_game_plan
    (stickster, 19:44:02)

* Open tickets  (poelcat, 19:45)
  * ACTION: next meeting create a text dump of all the tickets into one
    gobby document  (poelcat, 19:46:00)
  * ACTION: consolidate tickets into a few main tickets and create game
    plan from there  (poelcat, 19:46:28)
  * ACTION: jcollie to provide a sanitized git repo of the Fedora Talk
    asterisk configs in his fedorapeople.org space  (stickster,
    19:50:23)
  * ACTION: jcollie will put sanitized git repo of FedoraTalk config on
    his people space and reply to list with location  (poelcat,
    19:50:24)

* next meetings  (poelcatl, 19:52)
  * ACTION: : keep meeting at 19:00 UTC for next two tuesdays to plan
    Asterisk FAD  (poelcat, 19:55:18)
  * ACTION: stickster to start mail thread about streaming technology we
    should pursue... cc thmoasvs and herlo in discussion  (poelcat,
    19:59:13)

Meeting ended at 20:02:29 UTC.




Action Items
------------
* jcollie to ensure Asterisk 1.6.2 is available in Infrastructure repo
  before this Saturday, 2009-10-10.
* mmcgrath to build asterisk2 as a F-12 bo.x
* stickster to apply for sysadmin-tools to gain access to asterisk2
* : poelstra to find link to pdf version of O'Reilly Asterisk book
* : read chaps: 4, 5, 10, and 6... test on Monday!
* next meeting create a text dump of all the tickets into one gobby
  document
* consolidate tickets into a few main tickets and create game plan from
  there
* jcollie to provide a sanitized git repo of the Fedora Talk asterisk
  configs in his fedorapeople.org space
* jcollie will put sanitized git repo of FedoraTalk config on his people
  space and reply to list with location
* : keep meeting at 19:00 UTC for next two tuesdays to plan Asterisk FAD
* stickster to start mail thread about streaming technology we should
  pursue... cc thmoasvs and herlo in discussion




Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* jcollie
  * jcollie to ensure Asterisk 1.6.2 is available in Infrastructure repo
    before this Saturday, 2009-10-10.
  * jcollie to provide a sanitized git repo of the Fedora Talk asterisk
    configs in his fedorapeople.org space
  * jcollie will put sanitized git repo of FedoraTalk config on his
    people space and reply to list with location
* mmcgrath
  * mmcgrath to build asterisk2 as a F-12 box
* poelstra
  * : poelstra to find link to pdf version of O'Reilly Asterisk book
* stickster
  * stickster to apply for sysadmin-tools to gain access to asterisk2
  * stickster to start mail thread about streaming technology we should
    pursue... cc thmoasvs and herlo in discussion
* **UNASSIGNED**
  * : read chaps: 4, 5, 10, and 6... test on Monday!
  * next meeting create a text dump of all the tickets into one gobby
    document
  * consolidate tickets into a few main tickets and create game plan
    from there
  * : keep meeting at 19:00 UTC for next two tuesdays to plan Asterisk
    FAD




People Present (lines said)
---------------------------
* stickster (137)
* jcollie (57)
* poelcat (56)
* mmcgrath (34)
* jds2001 (28)
* brunowolff_ (8)
* zodbot (4)
* Ac-town (1)
* poelstra (0)


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[Bruno Wolff III]

I was able to get the F13 version (asterisk-1.6.2.0-0.6.rc3.fc13.i686) of
asterisk working on F12. I was also able to get dahdi-linux working using
the trunk from Digium (some kernel build opts changed since 2.6.30 which
break 2.2.0.2) and a spec file from messinet.com with very minimal changes.

[John Poelstra]

Bruno Wolff III said the following on 10/11/2009 05:16 PM Pacific Time:
>  I was able to get the F13 version
> (asterisk-1.6.2.0-0.6.rc3.fc13.i686) of
>  asterisk working on F12. I was also able to get dahdi-linux working using
>  the trunk from Digium (some kernel build opts changed since 2.6.30 which
>  break 2.2.0.2) and a spec file from messinet.com with very minimal changes.
>   
Thanks for doing this!

Can you put the steps you took, etc. on a wiki page so the rest of us 
who haven't done this before don't have to start from scratch?

Thanks,
John

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:56:10 -0700,
  John Poelstra <poelstra(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  Bruno Wolff III said the following on 10/11/2009 05:16 PM Pacific
> Time:
>  >I was able to get the F13 version (asterisk-1.6.2.0-0.6.rc3.fc13.i686) of
>  >asterisk working on F12. I was also able to get dahdi-linux working using
>  >the trunk from Digium (some kernel build opts changed since 2.6.30 which
>  >break 2.2.0.2) and a spec file from messinet.com with very minimal changes.
>  >
>  
>  Thanks for doing this!
>  
>  Can you put the steps you took, etc. on a wiki page so the rest of
>  us who haven't done this before don't have to start from scratch? 
I think the process for that machine was specific to me. I had been running
asterisk to allow phones to be used within our house. We don't have a land
line any more and it's really convenient for my wife to pick up a phone
and have the one by my desk downstairs ring. I am also playing with sip
connections to fedora talk. I needed dahdi-linux to make the phones work.
Most of you (excepting Jeff) probably don't have the hardware and don't
want to play with dahdi-linux. The sip configuration is also specific to
me and needs some changes to fix some problems with the way it is working.
Hopefully I'll get that done and update my documentation on using asterisk
with Fedora Talk to include what I learn. (See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bruno/Using_Asterisk_with_Fedora_Talk
if you are curious.)

When I get the information about the configuration I'd like to replicate
that on another box I have available. I think it would be worthwhile to
document that process assuming I get the config information enough in
advance.

A brief summary of what is mostly needed is to install the asterisk 1.6.2
from F13 on an otherwise F12 system. You only need the plain asterisk rpm.
There are a bunch of extensions available as related packages, but none of
these is required for a basic asterisk setup. Asterisk is controlled by
initscripts so you use chkconfig to set which run levels you want it started
in. You can also use the service command to start/restart it for testing.
Warning if you run the asterisk binary as root some log files may get owned
as root which will cause you grief. Running it through the service command
does the right thing. You can run asterisk -r to connect to a running
asterisk instance and getting live status information. Inbound sip connections
are on port 5060. Some related data uses port 8000. I am not sure if there
is an iptables module that tracks that a data connection to port 8000 is
related to a connection on 5060. (5061 is used for secure SIP connections,
but I haven't been playing with that yet.) I just opened both ports for
my testing. The only config files that were necessary for me to get it
work were:
asterisk.conf
dahdi_channels.conf
indications.conf
modules.conf
sip.conf
chan_dahdi.conf
extensions.conf

And you shouldn't need either of dahdi_channels.conf or chan_dahdi.conf.