Bug#399807: asterisk: please let users configure a basic home asterisk setup in debconf

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 02:10:19PM -0500, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Hi Brandon and pkg-voip-maintainers,
> 
> 2006/11/26, Brandon Kruse <admteamkruz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >I am against this integration for deb-conf
> >
> Exim4 and postfix use debconf integration (you can choose any of 3
> common automatic config scenarios or you can choose "leave my settings
> alone". The system works well. IMO, we should do a poll on one of the
> Debian news blogs. We should see if people who use Debian at home
> would like Asterisk auto-configuration for voicemail. :-)
> 
> >im sure we could come up with a better way to do things
> >
> [snip]
> 
> Do any of you have any alternate ideas?

The handling of voicemail is really a minor detail. I'd consider it of
debconf priority low. Why don't you start with the major questions: what
should the PBX do?

Can you come up with such a set of questions?

One important implementation requirement: Asterisk will erquire manual
configuration.  E.g: registrating and configuring phones and trunks. 
This must not conflict with Asterisk.

I would focus first on making things Just Work with as little user input
as possible.

For instance: can anybody consider a standard way to define the
information about SIP (IAX?) trunks in order to automate subscribing to
one?

I have done some work on making Zaptel work automagically. Is there
similar work with chan_capi and/or mISDN?

Also consider users.conf in Asterisk 1.4, which hopefully should help
implementing a simple setup.

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