[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Administration and Management requirements (splinter from $200 AMP bounty thread)

[Tony Nichols]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:48, JAMES BOTHAM wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I agree with Greg and also with the documentation
> group, we are all great at bitching about * (I know I
> have done a lot of it but thats because UK and support
> for us is minimal or so it feels) we need to unite,
> the only reason Microsoft are so popular is because it
> take 2 minutes to install and applications are usually
> it is easy to configure (coming from Windows to Suse
> was quite easy due to YAST but then from Suse to
> Fedora Core is a nightmare thank god for web min)
> users a nd administrators don't want to be editing
> conf files to do the smallest thing i.e. create a
> dialplan  thats a nightmare, coming from an Avaya
> background (although it has been a year since i
> touched an Avaya INDeX) you could create powerful and
> effective dial plans completely graphically it was so
> easy anybody could do it. Although all system
> administration was done through a menu driven console
> and that was really simple to use. We need to take the
> good from other systems and merge this to Asterisk.
> Also we have to document it. theres no point in
> writing the code if nobody can use it.
> 
> I would like to offer my skills to the production of
> this I can document, bug test and am great at user
> interface design I come from a software house
> background which I can also utilise to get this
> project off the ground.
> 
> I suggest that we all meet in a chat room to create
> some form of a project map and get this off the
> ground.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> James

Why not webmin? someone started the interface int (it's in the downloads
folder; many admins use it, there are soooo many plugins for it
currently --- so it must not be THAT hard to code.