[Asterisk-Users] [OT - somewhat] chan_sccp status

[Chris Wade]

Julien Goodwin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:50:16PM -0600, Chris Wade arranged a set of bits into the following:
> 
>>I hate to re-post like this, but I still haven't been able to get ahold 
>>of the chan_sccp developers (short of opening a bug report on their 
>>mantis installation just to get their attention :).  I originally sent 
>>this email back at the beginning of February.
> 
> I think I sent a response to this message when it was first sent.
> 

Ok, didn't see it, but no problem.

>>I would love to see an update as to the status of chan_sccp.  Also, I'm 
>>very interest in contributing to the efforts of chan_sccp, so please, if 
>>anyone from the dev team is reading this, please drop me a line.
> 
> Status: For myself, I work on what intrests me when I can (I'm now a
> full-time student and work 2.5 days a week). I'm slowly commiting my
> fixes for various things, but my three additional features (proper
> contention beeps, the voicemail button and better hold support) are
> waiting until I can get more models of phones to test against (I'm
> missing a 7910, a 7905/12, a 7960 (my 7940 should arrive tomorrow) and a
> 7920), as I posted before, SCCP is not a well defined protocol and the
> phones change it seemingly on a whim so it's much harder then trying to
> implment a standard like SIP or IAX. [Also useful are: 7935/6, 7970,
> 7914]. And again, if anyone has a callmanager installation tcpdump
> format ethernet dumps of features/phones that chan_sccp doesn't yet
> support are helpful (just ask before sending even 1MB of dump).
> 

I see - understandable.  I'll see what I can do to help.

BTW, instead of waiting to have access to those phones, why not put your 
patches on the chan_sccp bug-tracker and allow those of us who already 
have those phones to test for you?  I would be glad to setup a few 
7940's connected to a test * server - I'll even give you ssh access to 
it if you need it.  I'll even be your eyes/ears/fingers as needed to 
test those functions.

My _issue_ with chan_sccp is that development in the main cvs seems to 
be so slow it's hard to tell what actually needs work.  I would enjoy 
helping as much as I can - I just cannot see what needs to be done, 
other than the obvious stuff which I'm not sure how the 'core' 
developers want implemented (I'm speaking of button templates, etc. 
here).  Basically, I don't want to work on something somebody else is 
already working on, I want to help with something that is 'sitting' and 
stagnating.

> I've also contacted Cisco who claimed that they don't HAVE protocol docs
> for SCCP (even though I have the ISBN...) and arn't willing to help out
> with info at all.
> 

I know the feeling :(

> And in regards to the "New release" around 20/1/05 I don't know either,
> and if I had admin rights on sf.net I would have long removed it, but my
> own e-mail's to Jan have gone unreplied.
> 

Ugh, sounds to me like the left hand doesn't know what the right is 
doing?  Is there a roadmap for chan_sccp development?

> Thanks,
> Julien
> chan_sccp developer

Well, now at least I have direct contact info for one of the chan_sccp devs.

Thanks,
Chris