[asterisk-dev] Bounty for parking on <slot>@<context>

[Alistair Cunningham]

This has slipped off the radar due to other work this week, but it's 
back. I've formally posted the bounty at:

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page_id=5603

Alistair Cunningham
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Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> I'd like to offer a bounty for a feature for Asterisk where an AGI
> program can park and retrieve calls on parking slots that are of the
> form <slot>@<context>, where <slot> is a number and <context> is an
> arbitrary string.
> 
> Asterisk will not choose a slot; the AGI program will always specify
> which exact slot and context to use. The AGI will keep track of which to
> use in its own database. It's acceptable for Asterisk to return an error
> if the AGI tries to park on a slot that's already in use. If you want to
> implement automatic choosing of slots for the benefit of other Asterisk
> users that's fine, but our code will always specify which slot to use
> and your code must at least have an option to allow this.
> 
> It must not be necessary to pre-define either slots or contexts in
> Asterisk configuration files. It must be completely dynamic for the AGI
> to choose at run-time.
> 
> The call flow should work as follows:
> 
> 1. A call comes in from an external number.
> 
> 2. Asterisk passes control to the AGI.
> 
> 3. The AGI does a Dial() with the "t" option to a SIP phone on a remote
> SIP registrar.
> 
> 4. The destination transfers the call using # or its own transfer
> button. The # for the transfer should be the only thing in this call
> flow that's set in the Asterisk configuration files.
> 
> 5. The transfer call comes back to the AGI, which decides that the
> transferrer wants to park the call. Each transferring phone may have a
> different code to park calls, so this is configured in the AGI's
> database rather than Asterisk's features.conf.
> 
> 6. The AGI instructs Asterisk to park the original inbound call on
> <slot>@<context>.
> 
> 7. Asterisk does this, and reads <slot> to the transferring phone.
> 
> 8. The transferring phone hangs up.
> 
> 9. Another telephone calls a number to pick up the parked call that goes
> to the AGI. This number may be <slot> or it may not. For example, a user
> may have *99<slot> configured in the AGI's database to pick up parked
> calls. Only the AGI should care about this.
> 
> 10. The AGI instructs Asterisk to connect this call with the call parked
> on <slot>@<context>.
> 
> Steps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9 already exist. Steps 6, 7, and 10 need
> written. I'm also open to other ideas for call flows; please discuss
> with me before starting work however.
> 
> If anyone would like to write this, and it gets accepted into the
> Asterisk subversion repository for a future Asterisk version,
> Integrics is willing to pay a bounty of USD 500, payable by PayPal.
>