[Asterisk-Users] res_motv: Request for Comment

[Eliot Robinson]

excellent idea.

eliot
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 23:31, Mark Spencer wrote:
> I've been considering the nature of Asterisk, its security, the bug
> tracker, and more...  And i've come up with an interesting idea: A
> "message of the version".  The idea is that Asterisk has a compile
> time
> 32-bit unsigned int version which is incremented whenever some major
> new
> bug is fixed.  When Asterisk starts up (and periodically, maybe once
> per
> day), it sends a packet with the version number to a server at Digium,
> along with a message level (INFO,MINOR,MAJOR,CRITICAL) and the Digium
> server replies (if it receives the packet, if not, it might get sent
> again
> in a day) with any INFO, MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL messages which are
> associated with that version of the code.  In this way, an asterisk
> administrator could easily see if there were any major issues,
> critical
> security updates, etc, that his system might need to be updated for.
> 
> Now, of course, any time you put a "call home" feature in, there are
> people who will be concerned about privacy.  Clearly it will be able
> to be
> disabled, but I want to run my idea about deployment by everyone here
> and
> see if you guys had some ideas.  The idea would be that *new* installs
> ("make samples") would have the feature turned on for MAJOR level by
> default, and that any existing install (e.g. /etc/asterisk/sip.conf
> exists, but not /etc/asterisk/motv.conf) would have the file created
> at
> the next "make install" based upon prompting the installer.
> 
> Any feedback on:
> 
> a) The idea itself -- is it a good one or is it stupid?
> 
> b) The way to make it deployed without sneaking a "call home" in on
> anybody that doesn't want it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
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