[asterisk-dev] Final call for changes to Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6.2

[Ron Arts]

Op 26-04-11 09:38, Olle E. Johansson schreef:
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> 21 apr 2011 kl. 17.16 skrev Russell Bryant:
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> Today is scheduled to be the last day of full maintenance for the Asterisk 1.4.X and 1.6.2.X release series [1].  Here is what will happen next:
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> While I understand that you guys want to move on (which I do as well), a reality check is needed here. I don't think 1.8 is production ready yet.
 > All tests I've run have failed and there's no possibility to migrate installations away from 1.4 yet.  I know that some people run 1.8 in production
 > and this mail is not to discuss that, it's just to point out that for my customers, closing 1.4 support at this time will be hurtful since there's no
 > alternative to upgrade to.
>
> Closing 1.4 bug fixing would be really bad at this time. Regardless of what you do with the project, I will have to support it for at least the
 > rest of the year for my customers - depending on the state of 1.8 after the summer. It would be better if this support could happen in the main branch
> and not in a forked-off code base.
>
> I propose that we continue support of 1.4 to the end of the year while focusing on getting 1.8 production ready.  It took more than a year to get 1.4 in
 > the state so that we could migrate away from older code. 1.8 is still young and immature.
>
>

+1.

Mvg,
Ron Arts


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