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I began working on the Asterisk project in 2004.  My work on Asterisk has led to an exciting career in open source software engineering.  At the end of July 2011, I will be leaving Digium to take on some new challenges.  Specifically, I will be joining the Cloud Infrastructure team at Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer where I [...]

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Leif Madsen and I are working on a new book, the Asterisk Cookbook. One of the recipes that I am working on this morning is a method of adding debug statements into the Asterisk dialplan. I came up with a GoSub() routine that can log messages based on log level settings that are global, per-device, [...]

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I just posted an update on the development of Asterisk 1.10 to the asterisk-dev mailing list. Here is the content: Greetings, Shortly after the release of Asterisk 1.8, we had a developer meeting and discussed some of the projects that people would like to see in Asterisk 1.10 [1]. We discussed the schedule there a [...]

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We are finally wrapping up our book, “Asterisk: The Definitive Guide”. The contents have been available on a web site for a while, but now that the content is complete, we’re looking for a lot of review over the next couple of weeks. We would really appreciate your input!  Here is a post from Leif [...]

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Greetings, A while back, I posted a message about an effort to improve automated testing in the Asterisk project. I wanted to give an update on how that project has progressed for those that have not been following along very closely. We started using Bamboo as a continuous integration tool, which you can find running [...]

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The Asterisk Development Team has announced the release of Asterisk 1.8.0-beta1. This release marks the beginning of the testing process for the eventual release of Asterisk 1.8.0. This release is available for immediate download at http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/ All interested users of Asterisk are encouraged to participate in the 1.8 testing process. Please report any issues found [...]

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Asterisk 1.8 will be the next major release of Asterisk with Long Term Support. It has been under heavy development for a while now. The first beta release of Asterisk 1.8 will be available by the end of July 2010. There are many exciting features in Asterisk 1.8. Here are just a couple of the [...]

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See the original post on the asterisk-dev list. Greetings, I think we can do a much better job at testing within the Asterisk project and I suspect you do, too. The vast install base and wide variety of uses gets us very good feedback. However, it is clear that we can do better within the [...]

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I posted a proposal for some updates to Asterisk release policy to the -dev list today. Check it out here and let me know what you think!

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The accepted projects for Google Summer of Code 2009 have been announced. I have posted information about the students participating with the Asterisk project to the asterisk-dev list. Congratulations to all accepted students!

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