[asterisk-dev] [svn-commits] kaii: branch kaii/1.8-multicall r311976 - /team/kaii/1.8-multicall/

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Thursday 31 March 2011 11:28:11 David Vossel wrote:
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> 
> > From: "Olle E. Johansson" <oej at edvina.net>
> > To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 4:28:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] [svn-commits] kaii: branch
> > kaii/1.8-multicall r311976 - /team/kaii/1.8-multicall/
> > 
> > 31 mar 2011 kl. 11.08 skrev SVN commits to the Digium repositories:
> > > * creating public developer branch for "multicall behaviour" and
> > > other comfort PBX features as addition to stable asterisk 1.8
> > 
> > I think we have to be very careful with the word "stable" here. 1.8 is
> > a release, but we haven't used the prefix "stable" for many years for
> > our releases.
> 
> So, 1.8 isn't stable enough for you?  When does something graduate to
> stable status?

I think it's more of a question that "stable" is a loaded word, and it
means too many different things for us to use the word to describe a
release branch without causing confusion.  Certainly, neither 1.4 nor 1.8
are "stable", like Debian means the word, because the source is continually
changing.  And while our releases generally don't crash, sometimes
something sneaks into a release, and one release crashes often, which is
another meaning for "stable".  It's better to simply use the words
"release", "security maintenance", and "EOL" to describe our branches, and
leave "stable" for the distributions to define.

-- 
Tilghman