[App_rpt-users] New person questions

[Marshall Oldham]

Kip, 

Welcome to Allstarlink. Since no one has responded to your questions I will do my best to
answer. 
Anyone is free to jump in an add to my response. Se my comments to your questions. 


>I am new to AllStarLink.
>
>It looks like there is not much documentation for a beginner.
>

Have you looked at the wiki? https://wiki.allstarlink.org Lots of good information there.


>After I loaded the Asterisk image, I did what I always do when I load a 
>new distribution.
>
>sudo apt-get update
>
>sudo apt-get upgrade
>
>it took forever to get all the updates to my Raspberry Pi.
>

Yes, and that is fine. It is updating any installed software to the latest version, but not
app_rpt / Asterisk / DAHDI


>Now I am wondering if that was the right thing to do. 

Yes, it was! :)

>I peaked over to 
>the development page and saw there were no updates to the code since 
>November. And not much before that in 2018 and 2017. Should I not update 
>and upgrade?
>
As you can see, not much has been done since 2017/2018. 
There are a few folks working quietly and slowly behind the scenes. 
Since app_rpt is an open source we can always use more folks to help out and contribute. 
Especially if you know how! :)  

>Is there any development going on?

Yes, more details to come sooner than later!

>Will it only work on the old version of Raspbian and not the newest 
>versions and files?
>
This has been tested however we have chosen to stay with a stable LTS kernel at this time.



>Is there a wish list of things to fix/upgrade?
>

Yes and in progress.

>Is anyone working to make it run on a Raspberry Pi 4?
>

The current image should run on a Pi4.


>Am I asking the wrong questions? Nope, never. I hope this information helps. 

73

Marshall - ke6pcv