[asterisk-dev] About asterisk development plans

[Jon Bonilla (Manwe)]

El Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:45:02 +0200
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> escribió:


> 
> 1.4.17? You mean the one before the SIP security advisory?

I know that. But sometimes is better to have a usable version than a secure and
unusable one. That was an example... I dont want to talk about speciffic
regressions or bugs because as Olle said some of them are important to me but
not for other people and the other way round.

 
> My problem with such a sentence is that it is "hearsay". Those versions
> fixed quite a few bugs that bothered me and overall left Asterisk more
> stable. Pointing to specific regressions would be more useful.
>

grep the changelog for "regression"
 

> 
> Let's face it. Features are coming in fast. You use a software like
> Asterisk because it is a wildcard. With the old model you had to wait
> for over a year to get the latest developed feature in a "supported"
> version. This means that:
> 
> 1. Those new features were not tested well enough
> 2. You often had to run an unsupported version in production
> 3. If your personal stabilization cycle missed Digium's one, you get an
> extra delay of up to a year in getting new features.
> 

Asterisk is already a wildcard. This is not the same project Marc Spencer
begun. One you have features enough and you create a market and ecosystem
around the product, your goals should be different.


> 
> I already see some distributions use Asterisk 1.6.0 . People already use
> 1.6.0 in production. At some point in the future 1.6.3 will be relweased
> and 1.6.0 will no longer be supported.

As you said that is "hearsay". I also know people that install 1.2 branch
because 1.4 and 1.6 are not suitable form them.


> 
> At this point those users will be faced with the choice of either
> upgrade or find a different source of support. I believe that when such
> a decision point will come closer, you'll find such an idea more
> popular.
> 

I hope so. This is not a personal attack against Asterisk developers. It is
just my opinion about the future of the project. You should know better than me
what is better for it but I am asking more than other thing because what I see
is frightening me.


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