[Asterisk-Dev] 1.2 Feature freeze.

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Jerris, Michael MI wrote:
>>Eric Wieling aka ManxPower
>>You might want to consider announcing the feature freeze 30 
>>days before it takes effect, in order to make sure people 
>>that are working on things that are not ready to be submitted 
>>to the bugtracker have time to do so.
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> There has been talk of 1.2 for quite some weeks or months now both on
> the dev list and on the dev conference calls.  If somone has not been
> paying attention I don't think it makes a lot of sense to hold up a
> release that everyone is clammoring for (including you Eric) to give
> people a chance to get more things into it.  Lets finish up polishing
> off as many bugs and critical items as we can and get 1.2 marked.  

A Feature Freeze is not a Bug Fix Freeze.  Once you stop adding new 
features, you can concentrate on ONLY fixing bugs until release 
coordinator feels that the software is ready for an official "release 
blessing".

Really, I don't care WHEN the next release of Asterisk is ACTUALLY 
released.  What I want is to be able to use it in production, and for 
that I need behavour to stop changing.

> In that light, the bugtracker has been badly suffering lately due to
> poor response from posters.  In order to get things fixed, we need as
> rapid response as possible to questions posted, and careful watching of
> the bug guidelines so you do not post bugs without the required
> information.  Anyone is more than welcome to lend a hand in the bug
> tracker helping track down bugs and providing fixes.  This help is badly
> needed now.  There are only a handful of people that help manage the
> bugtracker, and complaining will not resolve these issues, only action
> will.  Consider this your call to action. 

I think this is because so many people are using CVS-HEAD in production 
and cannot take their Asterisk down 10 time a days to try out a big fix.

If I did that I would be very quickly be "formerly employed".

At this point if you want to use a version of Asterisk based on 
CVS-HEAD, that only gets bug fixes, you have to run....Asterisk Business 
Edition.  We are considering ABE this, because it's the only version of 
Asterisk that is released, that is based on CVS-HEAD, that only gets bug 
fixes.

In fact, several features like Realtime were NOT documented in ABE 
because they were not considered stable enough for production use.

--Eric

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