[Asterisk-Dev] asterisk 'stable'?

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Wed Sep 14 13:12:53 MST 2005


On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 09:36:00PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> >Well, still, maybe you should go read up on software design. Maybe we
> >should put notes here that this isn't for Roy until we are finished  
> >with
> >it.
> >
> >Software goes into a feature freeze so bugs can be found and addressed
> >without adding new code to be debugged. The idea is that you as a
> >business should not be surprised by any changes in that tree. It  
> >should
> >break due to upgrade.
> 
> well. take a look at FreeBSD. In that project they have feature  
> freezes and then stabilisation. When bugs are reported, they get fixed.
> 
> In Asterisk, bugs are not fixed. People are rather told to "upgrade  
> to latest CVS to see if the problem persists"

For that you need to have enough "gurus" using the "stable" branch. To 
take care of all the "pending stable" bugs and to answer bug reports.

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