[asterisk-dev] Bounty for regular beep in Monitor() and MixMonitor()

[Alistair Cunningham]

Integrics offers a bounty of USD 1000 (one thousand US dollars) for a 
new feature in Asterisk to play a regular beep to all parties when a 
call is being recorded using Monitor() or MixMonitor().

There's currently an inelegant way of doing this using the L() option to 
Dial(), but this is not particularly well engineered, and conflicts with 
other uses of L(). We'd therefore like to see something better. We had 
in mind a new option to Monitor() and MixMonitor(), perhaps something like:

Monitor(wav,/tmp/myfile,P(15000))

to play a beep every 15000 milliseconds. I chose P() for play more or 
less arbitrarily; feel free to choose some other character. We're also 
open to completely alternative designs, though please discuss this with 
me if you wish to do so.

You're also welcome to add further options, either as extra parameters 
to P(), or as Asterisk variables. For example, to specify the beep file 
to play:

Monitor(wav,/tmp/myfile,P(15000,beeps/fancy-beep))

You may also care to have an option limit playing beeps to either the 
calling or called parties.

None of these further options are required to win the bounty as we just 
care about playing a simple beep to all parties, but others may find 
them useful.

The bounty will be paid to whoever first gets their code accepted into 
the Digium repository for inclusion into a future version of Asterisk. 
The bounty is valid until 30th June 2014, and will be paid via your 
choice of wire transfer, PayPal, or bitcoins at the MtGox last trade 
rate at the time.

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Alistair Cunningham
+1 888 468 3111
+44 20 799 39 799
http://integrics.com/