FAD -- startin' early

[Zack Cerza]

Hey folks,

I was forwarded this because of the Dogtail mention. I'm not subscribed,
so if you want me to see replies please CC me.

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 13:13 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > It'd be nice if there was some easy tool that people could
> > yum-install that would make it easy to set up a VoIP soft phone for
> > Fedora Talk.  That is probably outside the scope of the FAD, but
> > could be an idea for someone wanting to get into the Fedora
> > Infrastructure group to work on.
> 
> You know what would work really well?  A package with a dogtail
> script, that used the appropriate HTML tags so that PackageKit can
> download dogtail and deps for you, then run the script.  You can
> actually see things running and therefore know how to do it later.
> 
> (Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Dogtail has got a lot of recent
> love.  It's been consistently rebuilt but I'm not sure it works, which
> is a shame -- it's really useful and it took me just a few minutes to
> learn how to write a script for Dogtail.)

Dogtail does work quite well, though you are right about it not getting
enough love. The version in Fedora isn't too terribly old, but will be
getting updated in the near future, after I make a long-overdue upstream
release.

I like your idea and I think it has a good chance of working. You ought
to be able to get a preliminary script working just by using the
recorder - although, be warned: scripts straight from the recorder don't
always work perfectly. They generally get you at least 90% of the way.

Zack