[asterisk-dev] Zaptel 1.0 to latest version update

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Tue Feb 7 12:26:03 MST 2006


On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:57:32PM -0500, Rod Dorman wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 12:58:00, Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> > On Feb 7, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Rod Dorman wrote:
> >>  ...
> >> Is there some phobia about odd numbers?  Why wouldn't the next
> >> "release" be Asterisk 1.3?
> >
> > In the open source world, typically odd numbered versions are the 
> > "testing/development" releases and even numbers are the official 
> > "consumer ready" releases.
> 
> Theres numerous counter examples to that, e.g. OpenBSD which has a
> release cycle http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors similar to
> the new Asterisk one http://www.asterisk.org/developers/releasecycle
> 
> Skipping  odd  numbers  is  like  not having a 13th floor because you're
> superstitious.
> 
> I  read  the  intent of the new Development and Release Cycle to be that
> every x.y release will be "consumer ready".

You can think of the current development branch as version 1.3.x . e.g:
1.3.0.<revision> . If you really need the version formatted as a version
number.

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