[asterisk-dev] Module Deprecation, Default Not Building, and Removal

Dan Jenkins dan at nimblea.pe
Thu Oct 1 13:55:55 CDT 2020


If there was an additional message attached to minor releases, does that
mean we can accelerate the steps?

On the question of why I'm opposed to 4 years? 4 years is an eternity to be
in limbo - we've already seen this with chan_sip - even though its
deprecated in 17, people still start using Asterisk today and use chan_sip
because they don't know any better and a crap load of documentation out on
the internet uses it. If the modules are deprecated, they're deprecated for
a reason - kill them as quickly as reasonably possible and be done with it
- it'll help everyone in the community long term. If someone disagrees with
say getting rid of chan_sip then they can continue to run 17/18 or whatever
- or they can take the contents of chan_sip, and apply them as a patch
themselves. I'm picking on chan_sip here because its the current thing that
caused these conversations in the first place.

Dan

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 7:07 PM Joshua C. Colp <jcolp at sangoma.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 2:28 PM Corey Farrell <git at cfware.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, or "core, deprecated in future versions" in the minors.  I don't
>> have strong feelings on the exact language just that we should indicate the
>> long term future of a module has been decided.
>>
>> Also sorry I accidentally didn't send my last reply to the list.
>>
>
> I think that's reasonable!
>
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