[Asterisk-Dev] asterisk 'stable'?

[Jerris, Michael MI]

> Greg Boehnlein
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> 
> > hi
> > 
> > i just wonder
> > 
> > the asterisk 1.0 is named stable, and as i've been told 
> that's because 
> > it's feature-frozen.
> > 
> > will there ever bee a STABLE asterisk, as in 'does not crash'?
> 
> Riddle me this.. is ANY software ever stable? Even Linux, 
> with all it's peer-review and commercial contribution and 
> development has specific issues under which it will crash.
> 
> Your question is too simple. The question should be "Given 
> the following desired feature set, under the following 
> conditions, with the following equipment, and this specific 
> application, will Asterisk be stable?".
> 
> I can say that I run the current 1.0-stable CVS in production 
> every single day and it is solid, reliable and stable for my 
> purposes. I, however, realize that Asterisk is an open source 
> product and as such there is a certain risk involved in 
> running it. It's not a class-5 switch, and if you want 5 9's 
> go get a DMS-100.

And even then, I had a nortel switch boot on me (dropping all the calls)
a couple months ago, right in the middle of the day.  

Mike