[Serusers] SIP Express Bundle. Step 1.

[Greger Viken Teigre]

That's great, Neil!
It's was Mike who made the server offer, but I'll let him pick up on that.

I think also the timing is very good. On serdev, the focus has increased 
on releasing SER 2.0. Serweb is synchronized with ser 2.0, and I'm sure 
Karel on serweb and Stefan on sems will support the bundling effort. 
Rtpproxy is of course also aligned.
As for getting from installation to running servers, there's the ser.cfg 
hurdle... ser-oob.cfg is unfortunately only available for Debian. The 
config file in the config buildsystem is fairly complete in 
functionality, but I would like to see it better aligned with 
ser-oob.cfg. However, I'm not sure how far that will go before the 2.0 
release, but if you want to use the buildsystem, we can use the 
requirements from your effort to improve it. I'll help out there.
g-)

SIP wrote:
> Okay, It's time to get things going on the SIP Express Bundle. I'm 
> stepping in to take the reins as project manager on this one so we can 
> get things rolling.
>
> First please take a look at the project page:  
> http://www.iptel.org/bundle/project
>
> Step 1 here, I'd like to verify a headcount of people working on this 
> project as of now. This doesn't mean people can't join up later, and it 
> certainly doesn't mean that I'm going to expect you to put more time 
> into this than you can commit, but we need to know where we stand.
>
> Currently, on the project list, we have:
>
>     *
>       Jai: testing and installation work
>     *
>       ram: testing
>     *
>       SIP: testing (and now project management)
>     *
>       Jiri: debian, oob
>     *
>       Mike: testing and documentation
>     *
>       Stefan: SEMS
>
> Are the people listed here still available to do these particular tasks? 
> Has anyone else volunteered time/resources on this project that hasn't 
> been listed here? If so, shoot me an email, and I'll add you to the 
> list. We need a people inventory so we know what roles we're missing.
>
> For instance, I've heard a few people mention that they'd be willing to 
> donate a server to the cause so we have somewhere to test things upon. I 
> don't have those people listed, but that's certainly an area we're going 
> to need. Also, we've had varying reports of which direction we're going 
> -- ISO or Virtual Machine.  For now, I think we should concentrate on an 
> ISO as that's going to be the most attractive to people for building a 
> ready-to-go hardware appliance, and it will probably be a little less of 
> a headache for creating a drop-in installation.  However, I also think a 
> virtual machine should be on the list in the future, and once we get an 
> ISO ready, creating a virtual machine from that configuration should be 
> relatively straightforward.
>
> However, on the list of people, I don't see anyone down for scripting an 
> install -- a kickstart disc or what have you. That's another area we're 
> lacking. If anyone has experience in that area, shoot me an email and 
> I'll add you to the list.
>
> We need to focus. For this reason, we'll start small and work from 
> there. Do NOT expect this first SER bundle to have every feature you 
> could imagine in it, and don't get discouraged if your favourite feature 
> is missing. As the project grows, we'll most certainly be adding 
> capabilities and allowing a tailored install. But for now, the goal 
> should be to get things running and working first in a simple format and 
> then add on from there.
>
> Having a bundle like this is perhaps the biggest step we can take toward 
> bringing SER to the masses and finally breaking down some of those 
> barriers that have kept people out of the project.
>
> I'm looking forward to working with all of you on this project!
>
> Neil
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