[Asterisk-Dev] asterisk s/stable/static/ ?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

>>> i just thought according to the legendary discussion about  
>>> 'stable'  being stable or not, perhaps the old 'stable' should be  
>>> renamed to  'static' or so not to confuse lost souls? this could  
>>> eventually open  up for a new 'stable' track in which the whole  
>>> point was stability.....
>>>
>>> just my thoughts......
>>
>> In my opinion, and everyone has one, the cvs-head stuff is far more
>> current and stable then anything else (give it a couple of days past
>> any mass updates/changes). The entire notion of Stable vs v1.x vs  
>> head has
>> absolutely no relavance to anything unless one closely monitors the
>> cvs list, developers list, etc.
>>
>> The development cycle exists only in the minds of the developers and
>> their interpretation of Stable, which is seldom (if ever) actually
>> used/tested by those that use those terms with few exceptions.
>>
>> Translated...
>>  If asterisk-cvs list is fairly inactive,
>>    then cvs-head is more stable then Stable,
>>  else
>>    don't use cvs-head
>>  endif
>>
> Why not just let those lost souls find their way out of the  
> confusion? They are going to install asterisk on a linux system.  
> They are entering a world where lots of packages are called stable  
> or unstable regardless of which has the most stability. They can  
> adapt.
>
> Besides, the "stable" branch is the one that they should install on  
> production servers unless they know what they are doing. If they  
> know what they are doing, they are not confused lost souls and will  
> understand the naming system.
>
> Changing it will not reduce the whine and gripe level much at all.

I'm not talking about a naming change, but a focus change. Today's  
focus is "let's stuff asterisk full of all we have and test it for a  
few hours and then name it 'stable' since we've feature frozen it".  
You really don't want to know how many open bugs there are on  
bugs.digium.com that digium and the guys know are stupid bugs, some  
of them a year ago, but still not resolved, just because "that  
doesn't happen on my system" or "I really can't be bothered trying to  
test that". IMHO if focus was "let's make things better (tm)", stuff  
like OpenPBX would never have a snowball's chance in Sahara......

roy