[asterisk-dev] Proposal to deprecate 'roundrobin' strategy in app_queue

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

> All,
>
> I have here a request from our support department to officially
> deprecate the 'roundrobin' queue strategy in app_queue as of the 1.4
> release, and then remove it after that. The point is that  
> 'rrmemory' is
> really what most people think of when they want a 'round robin' call
> delivery system, and the support department gets a fair number of  
> calls
> from people trying to do that and using the wrong mode.
>
> On top of that, nobody really can demonstrate any _advantage_ of the
> 'roundrobin' strategy over the 'rrmemory' strategy, so it seems  
> that it
> would be better to just begin the process of eliminating it in  
> favor of
> only supporting 'rrmemory' for this type of call delivery.
>
> Personally I agree with this proposal, but I want some input from the
> community before doing it. Comments?

Hi

I don't really see why we should remove or depricate it. I just setup  
a system where the linear nature of roundrobin was the one they  
wanted. So could we please keep this, and perhaps rename it to 'linear'?

roy
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