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

[David Vossel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tilghman Lesher" <tilghman at meg.abyt.es>
> To: "Asterisk Developers Mailing List" <asterisk-dev at lists.digium.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 1:27:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] [svn-commits] kaii: branch kaii/1.8-multicall r311976 - /team/kaii/1.8-multicall/
> On Thursday 31 March 2011 11:28:11 David Vossel wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > > 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
> 

Good points, I think I understand where OEJ is coming from now.

~David