Kazoo Version 5 open source

[KNERD]

KazooCon site still down, no MarketPlace after about 6 years, and still no Kazoo v5.  What good way to destroy a company reputation/products

 

"It’s not enough to be good at what you do. In today’s business world, you must dominate." --Grant Cardone
 

Edited June 5 by KNERD (see edit history)

[Sergey K]

On 6/5/2024 at 11:10 AM, mc_ said:

Yes, Ooma is committed to opening 5.x but there's bureaucracy to navigate while we are still merging infrastructure and teams after the acquisition.

I have tentative targets of October for that to happen. If anything changes, I'll let folks know but I continue to be assured that this is happening. 

How about Second Quarter of 2024 which was promised before? Will it be the same game year over the year again?

[RuhNet]

3 hours ago, Sergey K said:

How about Second Quarter of 2024 which was promised before? Will it be the same game year over the year again?

In fairness to 2600Hz/Ooma/mc_ , I don't recall any time there was actually a promised date, only "targets", "projections", "estimations", "hopes", "plans", etc. Personally, I'd rather be told an honest hope/estimation/target and then it not be met, than to be promised something concrete and it not be met. The messaging from 2600Hz has been clear and consistent: v5.x will be released open source. The when is the only thing that has not been as expected, and the projections and time estimations have been extended/changed etc. Anyone who has worked on large software projects knows this is difficult to avoid. The Ooma acquisition has obviously further complicated and delayed things on that front.

Have the delays shrunk the community size? I would say probably. But size or involvement of the open source community I would guess is not really high on the company's priority list, particularly in light of the minimal benefit the open source community has brought to the company. I suspect that this pattern of low volume of upstream contributions from the community may be common among open source software projects which have the combination of 1. being very complex  and 2. being of high monetary value to users in a competitive industry. To replicate something as complete and useful for a production environment as Kazoo 4.3, using other open source projects that are available, costs literally at the very least several hundred man-hours of work.  (Trust me---I've done it before: it's not nearly as simple or straightforward as slapping together Freeswitch, Kamailio, a DB and some other things.)

So, whenever the release of v5 happens, it will of course be welcome. I'm not holding my breath, for obvious reasons, and will continue working with v4.3 until then. When v5 finally comes out, I'll see what can be done to merge the changes/customizations/improvements I have made to v4.3, and hopefully use it in my systems.  :)

2600Hz/Ooma employees: don't read the following paragraph. LOL 🤣 

And who knows---these delays may actually strengthen and improve the Kazoo community over a longer period of time: with Centos7 going EOL in a few weeks, current users of Kazoo that have no alternative solution are of necessity going to be forking and compiling their own releases. And once you've done that, the barrier to entry for contributing upstream becomes much lower than when you are a "yum-install-freeloader-gimme-gimme-person" 🤣. So it may end up being a good thing in the long run. 🤭

Edited June 6 by RuhNet (see edit history)

[Mooseable]

Even IF v5 comes out, you now know you'll have to run EOL operating systems in the future, when the v5 branch stagnates for 6+ years.

I love kazoo, I submitted bug fixes (which never were approved because work was being done on v5) created community content, videos, community support.

I even tried to buy commercial Kazoo but we are "too small" for it to be viable financially (under 1000 extensions) in today's competitive market.

I'd love to continue with open source until we hit the threshold where I can hand off the system management to a commercial contract.

But, it is what it is. I thank the kazoo Devs for building a fantastic system and I wish v5 was out before CentOS EOL

[KNERD]

It was already mentioned the will be using Alma Linux

[fmateo05]

After browsing the rpm repository i found some rocky 8 and 9 packages; but with the core not yet released

https://packages.2600hz.com/rockylinux/8/

[RuhNet]

Yes, those packages are only for Kamailio, Freeswitch, and maybe RabbitMQ.

[Mooseable]

On 6/8/2024 at 3:52 AM, KNERD said:

It was already mentioned the will be using Alma Linux

What I meant was, alma 9 will be end of support in under 3 years. If it's 6 years before a distro update let alone a version update available, running kazoo open source is a massive risk.

Only way to go is commercial but then, I never would have even heard of Kazoo if not for the open source community version.

[Chris Labonne]

So I want to manage my tone and encourage others to do so also (this thread has been a pretty level discussion so far). I'm frustrated with the delays, but only in so far as they are delays beyond 2600hz's own self-imposed expectations. More than I am frustrated, I'm appreciative on the immense amount of work that goes into a project like this. To open source a project like Kazoo is something few companies do. 

The purpose of this post is to say, if others are also willing to help out, I would be willing to work on a fork of the 4.3 branch. The first goal of this forked-project would be to just get the current release on a supported version of the OS and make new deployments easier. 

(Also, maybe someone already has done this fork? If so point me in that direction)

TO-DO:

- Build 4.3 on Alma latest and see what works and what does not

- Make it easy for those who get their own PAT from SignalWire to use their FREESwitch repos (you know, because they are not public anymore)

If there is a theme for a forked 4.3 project, it is "Stability on current Alma".

I have some modest resources in my lab that allows me to build and test so I can provide my own feedback on how this works.  But honestly, I'm probably blind to some of the challenges we will encounter (eg CouchDB 1.0 on Alma 9???). This brings me back to Ooma/2600hz - if they are close to a release, this is not worth the effort. But it seems we will just never know until it actually happens (which could be never). 

I manage a couple production deployments of 4.3 and they work well. But I'll soon get heat for Centos 7 and we will have to make a move. If I don't act soon, I'll likely be forced to jettison Kazoo for Asterisk. I really like the architecture of Kazoo especially for its use of FREESwitch and Kamailio. 

Open to feedback...

[RuhNet]

If you are willing to put in the effort to give that a shot, then it would be awesome! There are a few forks of Kazoo already, but most are private. One that is not, and what I would encourage you to start from, is the Sipengines fork, which is up to date with 4.3.142, but has a number of fixes applied, as well as the improvements to ACDC that Voxter made several years back. In my forked repo I have the Sipengines branch (4.3.142.itlevel3) as well as the stock 2600hz code, and some other [minor] improvements I've made on some branches.  https://github.com/ruhnet/kazoo You are welcome to use that as a base. I can't necessarily commit concretely to help a lot, but as much as I have opportunity I would love to. I normally build Kazoo on Debian, as it is my server distro of choice, but building it on Alma shouldn't be any different really.

Reach out to me if you have any issues setting up your build environment or need help. :)

RE CouchDB v1 (Bigcouch) on Almalinux---Noooooooo lol. v2.x is the current "supported" version by 2600Hz, but I have always used CouchDB v3.x on my installs for the past 5 years or thereabouts (since v3 came out). It requires slightly different setup (the admin port 5986 has been deprecated), but is current and performant. I believe Kazoo v5 uses Couch v3 if I remember correctly (there is some code in master branch that references it).

 

 

[fmateo05]

Excuse me about this off-topic

It is possible carry out my user account? I decided to not continue with  new posts and contributions  here on this forum. What do you need from my end?

[RuhNet]

1 hour ago, fmateo05 said:

Excuse me about this off-topic

It is possible carry out my user account? I decided to not continue with  new posts and contributions  here on this forum. What do you need from my end?

@fmateo05 Not sure why you would want to do that, but you can request deletion of your forum account by going to "Account Settings" and then the "Security and Privacy" section.

[fmateo05]

1 hour ago, RuhNet said:

@fmateo05 Not sure why you would want to do that, but you can request deletion of your forum account by going to "Account Settings" and then the "Security and Privacy" section.

Tried that before and no feedback/reply  from the moderators. 

[KNERD]

Just unsub from notifications and be done

[Chris Labonne]

18 hours ago, RuhNet said:

If you are willing to put in the effort to give that a shot, then it would be awesome! There are a few forks of Kazoo already, but most are private. One that is not, and what I would encourage you to start from, is the Sipengines fork, which is up to date with 4.3.142, but has a number of fixes applied, as well as the improvements to ACDC that Voxter made several years back. In my forked repo I have the Sipengines branch (4.3.142.itlevel3) as well as the stock 2600hz code, and some other [minor] improvements I've made on some branches.  https://github.com/ruhnet/kazoo You are welcome to use that as a base. I can't necessarily commit concretely to help a lot, but as much as I have opportunity I would love to. I normally build Kazoo on Debian, as it is my server distro of choice, but building it on Alma shouldn't be any different really.

Reach out to me if you have any issues setting up your build environment or need help. :)

RE CouchDB v1 (Bigcouch) on Almalinux---Noooooooo lol. v2.x is the current "supported" version by 2600Hz, but I have always used CouchDB v3.x on my installs for the past 5 years or thereabouts (since v3 came out). It requires slightly different setup (the admin port 5986 has been deprecated), but is current and performant. I believe Kazoo v5 uses Couch v3 if I remember correctly (there is some code in master branch that references it).

 

 

I appreciate the suggestions and the detail. I think this will be something we try out going forward. And I'm very tempted to go the Debian route. 

[Sergey K]

Will be great to run it on Debian. +1

[fmateo05]

docs.2600hz.com looks down. going to check if cluster install is include on the github documentation

[mc_]

docs site is working from here

[esoare]

Yup, working @fmateo05!

[RuhNet]

Must have been a temporary blip—it’s working now for me as well, but was not earlier today.

[fmateo05]

40 minutes ago, RuhNet said:

Must have been a temporary blip—it’s working now for me as well, but was not earlier today.

Good to know... Currently doing an install for a customer.

Edited June 19 by fmateo05 (see edit history)

[fmateo05]

On 6/13/2024 at 3:20 PM, RuhNet said:

If you are willing to put in the effort to give that a shot, then it would be awesome! There are a few forks of Kazoo already, but most are private. One that is not, and what I would encourage you to start from, is the Sipengines fork, which is up to date with 4.3.142, but has a number of fixes applied, as well as the improvements to ACDC that Voxter made several years back. In my forked repo I have the Sipengines branch (4.3.142.itlevel3) as well as the stock 2600hz code, and some other [minor] improvements I've made on some branches.  https://github.com/ruhnet/kazoo You are welcome to use that as a base. I can't necessarily commit concretely to help a lot, but as much as I have opportunity I would love to. I normally build Kazoo on Debian, as it is my server distro of choice, but building it on Alma shouldn't be any different really.

Reach out to me if you have any issues setting up your build environment or need help. :)

RE CouchDB v1 (Bigcouch) on Almalinux---Noooooooo lol. v2.x is the current "supported" version by 2600Hz, but I have always used CouchDB v3.x on my installs for the past 5 years or thereabouts (since v3 came out). It requires slightly different setup (the admin port 5986 has been deprecated), but is current and performant. I believe Kazoo v5 uses Couch v3 if I remember correctly (there is some code in master branch that references it).

 

 

Currently having issues with Kazoo with CouchDB 3 when using trunkstore / PBX Connector; It returns 686 PICNIC (FreeSWITCH) and behaves like the Number is not assigned to trunkstore. 

 I am going to locate and post some kazoo logs regarding this.

UPDATE:

More below...

Edited June 23 by fmateo05
Typo correction (see edit history)

[RuhNet]

1 hour ago, fmateo05 said:

Currently having issues with Kazoo with CouchDB 3 when using trunkstore / PBX Connector; It returns 686 PICNIC (FreeSWITCH) and behaves like the Number is not assigned to trunkstore. 

 I am going to locate and post some kazoo logs regarding this.

UPDATE:

More below...

is the number actually added to the account?

[fmateo05]

Yes it is, and also assigned to the trunkstore

Edited June 23 by fmateo05 (see edit history)

[RuhNet]

Would be a good idea to start a new thread for this, since it's unrelated to the current topic.