[asterisk-dev] Attended transfers in queue_log

[Mark Michelson]

Mark Michelson wrote:
> I just finished merging a change into the trunk branch which corrects a 
> long-standing deficiency of the queue_log: the inability to log attended transfers.
> 
> A bit of background: prior to the merge, a blind transfer made by a queue member 
> would show up in the queue_log as a TRANSFER event. Attended transfers, however, 
> due to the limitations of what information was available to app_queue, did not 
> log a TRANSFER event. Instead, they appeared as a COMPLETECALLER event. With the 
> recent addition of a "fixup" phase to datastores during channel masquerades, I 
> realized that this could facilitate a means by which to correctly log an 
> attended transfer in the queue_log. Yesterday, I created a branch to make this a 
> reality and this morning I merged the branch into trunk.
> 
> Now the question arises: should this change also be merged into 1.4? My thinking 
> is that the majority of users would be very happy to see attended transfers 
> properly logged in the queue_log. The big thing holding me back right now is 
> that there are many third-party applications that use the data in the queue_log 
> to generate statistics. While I don't know of the specifics of these 
> applications' internals, I know that any sort of change to what is expected may 
> cause problems. To any who have written such apps, would such a change cause a 
> problem? Would it actually be helpful? Thanks in advance for your replies.
> 
> Mark Michelson

The popular consensus here is that people want this to be in 1.4 as well, so I 
will work on a backport (it should be trivial) and get it merged soon. Thanks 
for all the feedback.

Mark Michelson