[asterisk-dev] Proposal: "Diving into Asterisk" for FOSDEM

[Steve Oualline]

What do you do when you're faced with 1,000,000 of Asterisk
code that you've never seen before and a customer who can't
make phone calls? This talk describes how to dive into
a large open source program and quickly figure out what is
going on.

The talk details tools and methods that can be used to
search through large programs and quickly locate
code related to a specific problem. It also shows
how to use the Vim editor to go up and down a call stack
in order to learn how the program is functioning or more
importantly why it is not functioning the way it should.

Additional debugging techniques and log file analysis
techniques are presented.

Although the talk uses Asterisk as the source to be
examined, almost all of the information presented
in this talk will be applicable to other open source
projects.