[asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon 2014:Agenda item Deprecate AMI/AGI(Ben Klang)

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Paul Albrecht <palbrecht at glccom.com> wrote:
>
> When Matt says deprecating the dial plan would be difficult and would take a
> long time it seems to me he’s being evasive and misleading. He doesn’t say
> it’s never going to happen and he doesn’t share whatever he thinks the
> Asterisk vision actually is which he should presumably be aware of since he
> is the Asterisk engineering manager.

Why do you keep insisting that Digium promise to *never* deprecate
dial plans?  I don't think that's a promise that's really worth
anything as there may be really good reasons in the future to do so.
I think that you've gotten the best that you will get: they've said
that there are no plans within Digium to deprecate the dial plan, and
if there were plans, they'd give people a long time prepare before it
actually happens.

It's probably a good time to refresh your understanding of Digium's
support policies:

https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

Version 13 will be around until at least 2018, so you'll have *at
least* that long to prepare for the switch, since version 13 is
feature frozen so there's no way the dial plan would be removed from
13.

And all of this talk of "deprecating the dial plan" isn't even coming
from Digium.  It's something that was suggested by a community member
at the developer conference.  I wasn't there so I don't know how
seriously it was taken there, but it would have been impolite of
everyone involved to just ignore it.

-- 
Jeff Ollie