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

[Mike Fedyk]

Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Well, I would personally think there is a reasonable sized use case for
> roundrobin as-is in smaller installations. ie, single sales person,
> single accounts person, single manager. You want a sales queue with
> plain roundrobin, so the sales guy always gets first preference, but you
> also want your sales queries handled quickly, so it then rolls over to
> the accounts person, and then to the manager.
>
> Of course, the same configuration can be achieved with using the agent
> priority/weight, so perhaps it is not relevant.
>
> Perhaps the best solution is to change roundrobin to rrnomemory and
> leave rrmemory as-is ??
>
> This will stop people from blindly picking "roundrobin" because the
> config option sounds right, and they will spend the extra 3 seconds to
> read the description in the sample config file...
>
> Basically, I don't see the advantage in removing a feature, that
> someone, somewhere, might be using...
And you rename the feature for people who are using the feature already 
and it can be done with weights as you say, so either leave it or remove 
it, IMHO.