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hands dirty, and do the work, you will find a community more than willing to share |
their hard-won knowledge with you. |
The following are some of the places the Asterisk community hangs out. |
Asterisk’s Discourse-Based Community Site |
Asterisk moved its official forums to https://community.asterisk.org/ in 2015. This |
appears to be the most active community right now, and the signal-to-noise ratio is |
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excellent. The Digium folks do a good job of moderating this, and several of their |
senior and experienced people are actively involved. |
Bear in mind that this is not like paid support. You are expected to do the work your‐ |
self, but you can expect to get some good quality advice here, which can help to steer |
you in the right direction. |
The Asterisk Mailing Lists |
The activity on these lists has been reduced to a trickle (down from hundreds of mes‐ |
sages per day to maybe a dozen threads per month). They are probably most useful as |
an historical archive, but may be worth searching through when you’re working on |
an intractable problem. Of the mailing lists you will find at lists.digium.com, these |
two are likely to be the most useful: |
Asterisk-Users |
This list is a shadow of its former self. Whereas it used to generate several hun‐ |
dred messages per day, most of this traffic has moved to Digium’s Asterisk Com‐ |
munity site (above). |
Asterisk-Dev |
The Asterisk developers hang out here. The purpose and focus of this list is the |
discussion of developing the software that is Asterisk, and participants vigorously |
defend that purpose. Expect a lot of heat if you post anything to this list not |
specifically relating to the programming or development of the Asterisk code |
base. General coding questions (such as queries on interfacing with AGI or AMI) |
should be directed to the Asterisk-Users list. |
The Asterisk-Dev list is not second-level support! If you scroll |
through the mailing list archives, you’ll see this is a strict rule. |
The Asterisk-Dev mailing list is about discussion of core |
Asterisk development, and questions about interfacing your |
external programs via AGI or AMI should be posted on the |
Asterisk-Users list. |
Asterisk Wiki Sites |
This isn’t really a community hangout, but it deserves a mention. Digium maintains a |
wiki for Asterisk at wiki.asterisk.org. This site is constantly kept up to date by the Dig‐ |
ium team, and automated scripts export the XML-based documentation from the |
Asterisk source into the wiki itself, all of which helps to ensure that the data you’re |
reading is an accurate representation of the world. |
An older wiki exists at www.voip-info.org, which is these days somewhat of an histori‐ |
cal curiosity, and a source of much enlightenment and confusion. While there is a |
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Chapter 1: A Telephony Revolution |
massive amount of information contained here, much of it is out of date. We include |
reference to it here simply because you’re likely to land on it one day and think you’ve |
hit the mother lode, but what you’ve actually found is more akin to a museum of his‐ |
torical oddities: fascinating, but not necessarily relevant. |
The IRC Channels |
The Asterisk community maintains Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels on |
irc.freenode.net. The two most active channels are #asterisk and #asterisk-dev.4 To cut |
down on spambot intrusions, both of these channels require registration to join. To |
register, run /msg nickserv help when you connect to the service via your favorite |
IRC client. |
Conclusion |
So where to begin? Well, when it comes to Asterisk, there is far more to talk about |
than we can fit into one book. This book can only lay down the basics, but from this |
foundation you will be able to come to an understanding of the concept of Asterisk— |
and from that, who knows what you will build? |
4 The #asterisk-dev channel is for the discussion of changes to the underlying code base of Asterisk and is also |
not second-tier support. Discussions related to programming external applications that interface with Aster‐ |
isk via AGI or AMI are meant to be in #asterisk. |
Conclusion |
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CHAPTER 2 |
Asterisk Architecture |
First things first, but not necessarily in that order. |
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