[Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Development Updates

[Alex Lopez]

My continued thanks go out to you guys and the rest of the Asterisk
community.

Asterisk HAS grown quite a bit since I first used it over a year ago,
and ALL the credit goes to the community.

I look forward to the new tree and will continue to CVS off of the
current branch so that I can stay on the cutting edge.


Once again thanks for all your time and efforts in making this a great,
powerful and unique product.


Alex Lopez


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Spencer [mailto:markster at digium.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 4:45 PM
To: asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com; asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Dev] Asterisk Development Updates

Prompted by the recent discussion on the mailing list regarding the
Asterisk development and release process (or lack thereof), John Todd,
Thorsten Lockert, Brian K. West, and myself have put together a plan to
address the most significant two legitimate concerns that have been
expressed regarding these processes.  Specifically:

Concern #1: Asterisk release schedules and path to 1.0.0

Asterisk version 0.7.0 will be released by Monday Jan 12, 2004.  Later
that week, we will create a stable branch from which eventually 1.0.0
will
be tagged.  Only bug fixes will go into the release branch, while
feature
requests and bug fixes will continue to go into the head branch.  If you
are currently using CVS asterisk on a production server, we suggest that
you move to the new stable CVS branch when it becomes available.
Instructions for using the new stable CVS branch will be made available
on
asterisk.org next week.  Snapshots of the stable branch will also be
made
available periodically as Asterisk 0.9.x for those not using CVS.  If
you
wish to remain on the cutting edge, you may leave your system using the
head CVS as it is currently.

Concern #2: Slow integration of bug fixes and feature requests into CVS

With the assistance of John Todd and Brian West, we have added
documentation about how the bug tracker operates, available at
http://www.digium.com/bugtracker.html.  This document should help new
users understand how the process of submitting bugs works, how to
properly
follow up on bugs to be sure they get applied, and how to contribute to
the bug tracking process as a Bug Marshal, thus accellerating the
process.
In addition, I am commiting 5-10 dedicated hours of my own time per week
to work with Bug Marshals on reviewing bugs, patches and feature
requests.

Conclusion:

Hopefully these steps will help improve the quality and stability of the
Asterisk code, and make it easier for people who wish to contribute to
Asterisk to do so, while maintaining Asterisk's availibility to continue
to advance new features and applications.

Mark, John, Thorsten, and Brian


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