[asterisk-dev] Asterisk 15 Beta Released

[marek cervenka]

+1 for node.js LTS style https://github.com/nodejs/LTS#lts-schedule1


Dne 15/08/2017 v 20:15 Dan Jenkins napsal(a):
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> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Matt Fredrickson <creslin at digium.com 
> <mailto:creslin at digium.com>> wrote:
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>     It is with great pleasure I wish to inform you of the first beta
>     release of the new Asterisk 15 branch. It's a very exciting time to be
>     a user of Asterisk! Asterisk 15 is arguably the biggest release of
>     Asterisk that has happened in the last 10 or so years. There has been
>     a lot of work done in the Asterisk core to better support newer
>     multi-stream video and WebRTC related technologies.  For those who are
>     interested, much of this will be covered in blog posts at
>     http://blogs.asterisk.org/ over the next month or two.
>
>     Typically, when a new major branch of Asterisk is created (13, 14,
>     15...), there are a few months of testing on the new branch that
>     occurs prior to release in order to find regressions and other issues
>     that may cause a first official release from the branch to be dead on
>     arrival for a significant number of users. With today's release of
>     15.0.0-beta1, this process has begun. Please feel free to start
>     testing this version of Asterisk in as many adverse environments as
>     possible. Any bugs should be reported on the Asterisk issue tracker at
>     https://issues.asterisk.org/
>
>     As a side note, due to many of the core changes in the 15 branch that
>     have been made since Asterisk 14 was released, it has been decided
>     that Asterisk 15 will not be an LTS release. For those of you who are
>     not familiar with the differences between LTS versus standard
>     releases, you can find more information here [1].
>
>     Thanks to all the many Asterisk community members for providing so
>     much help and support to make Asterisk the great open source project
>     that it is.
>
>     P.S. Binary codecs and other modules distributed by Digium are not
>     immediately available for 15.0.0-beta1, but should be shortly.
>
>     Best wishes to all, and happy testing!
>
>     [1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions
>     <https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions>
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>     Matthew Fredrickson
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>
> After talking to Sean McCord about this, I realised you didn't say 
> anything about releasing a new LTS; which you don't _have_ to do but 
> personally I have clients who are looking to use new features in 14 
> under an LTS and that's what we were expecting - I'm sure there are 
> businesses out there that still want an LTS to move to.
>
> The reason we are all expecting an LTS is because of this line in the 
> wiki on the page you linked to "New releases of Asterisk will be made 
> roughly once a year, alternating between standard and LTS releases." 
> (https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions)
>
> I'd like to propose that we make 14.6 (or later) the LTS in a similar 
> fashion to how other communities are now promoting versions to LTS mid 
> cycle (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS). That way you get to release all 
> the exciting things that are in 15 but as a community we get LTS 
> support on everything thats now in 14 - as we know, some businesses 
> will not move to a non LTS and I think it would be a real shame to not 
> get particular organisations moved over to using some of the great 
> things that have been added in 14.
>
> What are everyone's thoughts?
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