<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Matt Fredrickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:creslin@digium.com" target="_blank">creslin@digium.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hey all,<br>
<br>
Welcome back to all of you who attended AstriDevCon. Thanks so much<br>
for all of you that attended and gave so much of your time to be able<br>
to contribute.<br>
<br>
One of the ideas proposed in AstriDevCon was to create the notion of<br>
working groups within the Asterisk project, similarly to the way that<br>
the node.js project operates. I think this would be separate from the<br>
notion of maintainers of modules or subsystems in Asterisk, which we<br>
already have, and be more targeted towards areas that are non code<br>
related or areas of new code contribution.<br>
<br>
I'm assuming that this would mean each working group has a directive<br>
or mission of some sort, a list of members, and someone responsible<br>
for the output of the group itself (someone to hang, in a manner of<br>
speaking :-) ).<br>
<br>
Presumably we initially would need to identify some key areas of coverage.<br>
<br>
Since the discussion began at Astricon, I'd love to see some<br>
continuation here on the list and welcome any additional<br>
thoughts/interest/disinterest.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So +1 to working groups (oh it was me that suggested it - can I +1 my own idea?)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I suggested it because of the lack of ways of being able to ask for feature requests through Jira. The idea was 1) to get the community more a part of what drives Asterisk forward (and not just those that can turn up to devcon) but 2) to be able to formulate a plan on things we want in certain areas going forward. For the Node.js project there are many working groups for different purposes (<a href="https://nodejs.org/en/about/working-groups/" target="_blank">https://nodejs.org/en/about/<wbr>working-groups/</a>) - I'm part of the documentation working group for Node.js. Because Node.js is covered under the Node.js foundation (and then the linux foundation) people within these working groups directly influence X. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So the documentation working group tries to make clear documentation etc etc; theres an Internationalisation working group who purely put their skills in multiple languages into action by translating blog posts/website/documentation etc into other languages used throughout the world.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Its a little different here because Digium are pretty much in tight control of a lot of stuff.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But we can still affect change within the community. So three areas close to my heart are migrating away from chan_sip (purely from a removing old code, we don't need two SIP stacks point of view), ARI and future features for that - at the moment we have a wiki page for feature requests but doesn't encourage talking publicly about these things and the third is documentation - we all know the wiki isn't brilliant. if you know where you're going then yes, the wiki is amazing. I have a new dev working at Nimble Ape who started looking at ARI the week I was away at Devcon. I got back and was talking to him and he said it was hard to find good docs etc - he had found the examples on the wiki but when I sent him the REST docs and the Events docs that are within the wiki he proclaimed "this is exactly what I needed last week" - the docs are there but hard to find etc. a documentation working group would try to tackle this.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So yes, I'm up for working groups, each should be led by one person and then a team built up under them. Ideally I'd like to discussion to be easy and in a public place - this would mean (in my opinion) either making a new github org or utilising the asterisk github org, making public repos for each working group and having maintainers of them (for example the testing node.js working group is here - <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/testing">https://github.com/nodejs/testing</a>) - I'd rather it be encompassed by the asterisk org but don't know how that would sit with Digium etc.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Three potential working groups:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">PJSIP migration</div><div class="gmail_extra">Documentation</div><div class="gmail_extra">ARI</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dan</div></div>