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

[Muteesa Fred]

Hello all,
My name is Muteesa Fred from Uganda (East Africa), I have used asterisk for 4 years now. 
Been using perl agi scripts for call routing and dial plans in my asterisk switch.
I know it will be a great change to take away dialplans from asterisk but at the same time I am excited about the change.
Looking forward to this :)

Fred

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From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 7:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] AstriDevCon 2014:Agenda item Deprecate AMI/AGI(Ben Klang)

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.

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Jeff Ollie

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