[astridevcon-2007] Agenda Planning: Phase 1

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 12 April 2007 19:02, Steven Sokol wrote:
> > I'll open the discussions with this then... anyone have additional
> > or alternative suggestions for formats and/or topics?
>
> Here are a few topics that seem to keep coming up on my end of
> things. Obviously having an additional 4 daily topics won't work, but
> perhaps we can create working groups or task forces or something?
>
>
> 1) Management/Provisioning
> 2) Endpoint Integration

Both of these seem to be tasks best suited to the ITSP, not really an
item for the core project.  Each ITSP individually customizes these
to separate themselves from their competitors.

> 3) User Model
>
> This overlaps with the security topic a good deal.  The primary means
> of integrating user desktops with Asterisk is using the manager API.
> Unfortunately, the manager's internal security model doesn't provide
> any easy way to manage access on a granular level.  How can we
> improve it to allow for multiple classes of end-users and
> administrators?  Can we take the Users.conf concept and expand it to
> provide better services to Asterisk users?

This seems like a good topic for AstriDevCon.

> 4) Onboard & Offboard AstDB
>
> Let's use SQLite3 in place of the current AstDB and configure the DB
> functions, applications, CLI commands, and manager commands so that
> they can use either the onboard SQLite database or a remote RDBMS --
> seamlessly.  SQLite can also serve as a CDR storage mechanism and can
> run readily on embedded systems.

This sounds like a wishlist item for the bounty section of the Wiki and
could probably be done without too much debate.  I'd really like to see
more actual design issues at AstriDevCon, not individual wishlists.

-- 
Tilghman