[asterisk-dev] 24 Jan 2013 SIP project update

[Mark Michelson]

Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I sent out an update about what's going on with 
the new SIP project in Asterisk. Here's what's currently going on:

Joshua Colp and I have recently completed a milestone of being able to 
run a SIP call through the new SIP service in Asterisk. You can find a 
review of this work on reviewboard [1]. If you have objections to design 
decisions that have been made so far or can foresee problematic areas, 
now would be a great time to make it known on that review.

On the front of making PJProject packageable, David Lee recently created 
a git repo [2] where the externally-located PJProject will be located 
once it is no longer bundled with Asterisk. Jason Parker is working on a 
branch [3] right now where he is making improvements to the PJProject 
code and build system in an effort to pave the way to make it possible 
to create shared libraries for the different PJProject components. This 
work will be provided to Teluu, the maintainers of PJProject.

On the lower end, I recently merged threadpool support into Asterisk 
[4]. While the new SIP code is not using this at the moment, it 
eventually will. Other portions of Asterisk may also see benefit since 
the threadpool is written to be generic, not with SIP in mind. More 
exciting is Joshua Colp's recent work on a data access layer for 
Asterisk, nicknamed "sorcery" [5]. With this, we will streamline data 
access so that applications will not have to have special code sections 
depending on how configuration is stored (e.g. there won't be separate 
realtime and static configuration code). This will also help in 
facilitating easy backwards-compatibility of classic chan_sip's 
configuration. The sorcery work is in its final stages and should be 
integrated very soon.

As far as future development is concerned, you can watch the "Project 
Planning" section [6] of the project page on the wiki to see all related 
upcoming work. Priority right now is being placed on improving the 
calling experience with SIP at the moment. After sorcery is committed to 
trunk, you can expect to see it used heavily in the SIP work. The first 
place you will see it used is for endpoint location and identification. 
In addition, expect to see some work going into request authentication soon.

Mark Michelson

[1] https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2285/[2] 
https://github.com/asterisk/pjproject
[3] http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/qwell/pjproject-cleanup/
[4] https://code.asterisk.org/code/changelog/asterisk?cs=379432
[5] https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/2259/
[6] 
https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/New+SIP+channel+driver#NewSIPchanneldriver-ProjectPlanning