[asterisk-biz] Recent REMOTE CRASH BUG

[Howard White]

Matt wrote:
> My points is not that I would rather use Microsoft at all.  Asterisk is 
> a really great product and we have it in use at many locations, but I 
> get kind of annoyed that every version seems to have more bugs in it 
> that keep it from being usable.
> 
> Is there a reason Digium can't do a bit better QA on the source before 
> releasing it as 'stable'?

Ah, Matt - (a totally unrelated Walt Kelly / Pogo quote) "We have seen 
the enemy and they is us!"

This is not intended as a sermon but please remember that Asterisk is an 
open source project that Mark Spencer tripped over into as a business 
plan.  The quality assurance process is for those of us who use and sell 
Asterisk systems to perform.  We contribute, we use and hopefully we buy 
interface cards from Digium as a thank you for maintaining Asterisk as 
an open source project.

For if it were up to Digium to do all of the exhaustive quality 
assurance that you imply, Asterisk would not be open source, freely 
available or as useful.

Howard White
president - VCCH, Inc.