Yes, that tripped me up the first time too. It's certainly not the most user-friendly signup process. If you use a gmail/facebook/etc account to sign in, it's easier to confirm your email address to get the base set of points in order to vote.
Digium does have a documentation project, however I don't believe they're accepting direct user contributions at this time (and the site breaks if you sign in, so don't do that): https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Home On 12 May 2011 01:04, Bruce N <[email protected]> wrote: > > And I have signed up and voted as well. I got to admit I am new to > stackoverflow and took me a while to get the reputations needed to vote > because I signed up for an OpenID and then I had to go back to my profile and > add my e-mail again for it to send me e-mail verification to grab 50 > reputations for voting...................... > > > I am new to OpenID as well but that's a different story all together. I don't > think I still fully understand how it works :-) > > > Yes, it's been quite some time that voip-info has lost all the hype around > it. I think there was some good opportunity for Digium to jump at making > proper documentations while people were busy fdeding of the huge spike on > voip-info shared knowledge but they didn't use the time wisely so now there > is no up to date source for Asterisk at all. > > > > -Bruce > > >> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 11:07:59 -0400 >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [on-asterisk] The decline of voip-info.org >> >> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Simon P. Ditner <[email protected]> wrote: >> > voip-info.org seems to be the source for out-of-date information. >> > >> > I found a proposal for a stackoverflow.com site for telephony, however >> > it needs more followers and votes on good/bad questions before it >> > moves out of the "defintion" phase: >> > http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12932/telephony?referrer=C8aJJir1H9AFK9yUPwMC_g2 >> >> Simon, >> I completely agree. Back in the day, voip-info used to be THE >> reference for all things VOIP, particularly Asterisk. It was good to >> have a one-stop-shop for info on all kinds of different hardware, etc. >> >> I registered and voted for some of the sample questions at >> StackExchange. Personally, I liked the questions that were seeking >> some insight or a synthetic answer rather than "I can't be bothered to >> google something can you spoon feed me the answer?" >> >> We get all kinds of quality questions and answers on this list. It's >> always nice to see someone take the time to give an deeply technical, >> insightful or illustrative answer to a good question. If we could >> have the same thing for a wider audience, I think that would a great >> thing for the community. >> >> Dave >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
