[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 14 Feature Freeze Reminder

[Matthew Jordan]

Hello everyone!

As you may or may not be aware, today is the feature free reminder [1] for the
next version of Asterisk. This is a notice that Asterisk 14 will be feature
frozen on July 20th, 2016. Having the branch be feature frozen gives the
Asterisk Developer Community time to test out the new features and improvements
that have been made to master since the last major release, Asterisk 13.

"But wait," you may ask yourself. "What does 'feature freeze' even mean if we
are adding new features to Asterisk 13?"

Good question!

On July 20th, the Asterisk team will create the Asterisk 14 branch, along with
a branch specifically for the first release of Asterisk 14, 14.0.0. As new
features are developed, they can be proposed both for Asterisk 13 as well as
for the Asterisk 14 mainline branch, subject to the 'you must have tests for
release branches' policy [2]. Meanwhile, the Asterisk 14.0.0 branch will remain
frozen, and the first beta/release candidates will be cut from it. When Asterisk
14.1.0 is released, it will contain any minor new features or improvements
that were made in the meantime and were merged into the Asterisk 14
mainline branch.

This policy balances the need to test out the new changes in master in a version
that is not a moving target, while allowing the Asterisk Developer Community to
continue to improve and enhance Asterisk.

Happy Coding -

Matt

[1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions
[2] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Software+Configuration+Management+Policies#SoftwareConfigurationManagementPolicies-NewFeatures

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Matthew Jordan
Digium, Inc. | Director of Technology
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