9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
8 a.m.
Greger V. Teigre wrote:
Hi guys, thanks a bunch for lots of input and I really
appreciate the
willingness to contribute.
Thus, I have created a "project page":
http://www.iptel.org/sip_express_bundle_sip_service_in_15_minutes
I thought we could gather the current perspective on that page and
document our decisions as we go. It will hopefully be useful in our
process, as well as documentation for us and others later.
I have noted the following volunteers:
Jai: testing and installation work
ram: testing
SIP: tesing
Jiri: anyting?
Mike: testing and documentation
Maybe we should set up a small mailing list for coordination emails,
but for now, let's use serusers (where I think all the comments came).
(I copy the other lists on this post, so the other lists know that the
discussion will move to serusers).
Out of the comments, I read CentOS and vmware as the most wanted
combination. I have documented the pros and cons on the project page,
and suggest that we do some testing before we decide. I also tried out
rpath (which I have no previous experience with). My observations are
documented on the same page.
Thus, I have started setting up a minimal CentOS virtual appliance
found in vmware's appliance directory on an esx server. I will send
details on accessing it to the volunteers once it is up and running
(decompressing, unpacking, and building a non-split disk takes an
awful lot of time :-( ).
Ok, further comments, ideas, etc, please post to serusers or edit/add
comments to the project page (requires an iptel.org account). I see
the following steps with documentation as we go (steps also found on
the project page):
1. Testing and specification of what we want to accomplish
2. Environment and OS setup to ensure that we easily can release new
versions
3. Installation and configuration of the software. I assume this step
also will involve development of some tools we need, as well as
adaptation of existing stuff
4. Testing and user documentation
5. Packaging and deployment
Let's get going!
g-)
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Something I noted about the project. While I am all for a virtual image
for testing purposes and getting things up and running while we're
creating this project, I think the ultimate goal should be something
like an ISO that's ready to go on a server. There are many of us in the
systems world who have not bought into the whole virtualisation
marketing gimmick when it comes to system deployment, and for the casual
home user who's less comfortable with using VMs for an actual production
system (which is, to be honest, a lot of people), it might be easier in
the long term to get everything the way we want it and then make an ISO
that's ready to drop onto whatever machine with all the components we need.
BUT... first things first. :) We need a list of everything that's going
to be in this bundle.
My assumptions are (at the basic level):
-SER 2.0 (in whatever state it's in atm)
-SERWeb
-RTPProxy
-SEMS
Secondary (but no less important) items that are a must-have:
-MySQL (I'm voting for 5 series here, but that will require my patch for
the mysql code in SER 2.0)
-Apache (req'd for SERweb)
-SIPsak
-ngrep (invaluable for debugging as well as learning)
Optional:
-mediaproxy
-freeradius
-radiusclient (for those who want to mesh SER with an existing radius
infrastructure perhaps)
Thoughts?
N.