[Asterisk-Users] Downgrading Asterisk

[Rich Adamson]

The code changes that fixed the cisco choppy sound for Stable went in last
Friday. That change corrected iax2 issues that had been known for well over
a month but never got applied to Stable. That same code is in Head, however
many other changes have happened to Head, and some of those apparently have
impacted at least "some" of us (mostly cisco users). Stable has a number of
other bugs that reportedly will never get fixed as the fixes use functionality
that exists only in Head.

It seems the choppy (and almost unusable) audio in Head is only impacting 
"some" cisco users, and since these problems are not impacting the few that
can read code, use cisco phones, and are impacted, we're stuck with the
problem. The problem seems to be very evasive, however switching the iax2
links to use only iLBC (and not gsm) has corrected issues for some.

Although many of us that have worked in a production I/T arena assume
something called Stable would truly have known bugs fixed, that's hardly the
case for *. That branch really should be renamed to something like v1.0 and
remove any reference to Stable and bug fixes as its treated as a lockdown
for added functionality, and has nothing to do with functional stability.

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> FYI Downgrading to -stable totally fixed the choppy audio on Cisco my 7960
> <- * -> IAX setup.  Now, when would a fix that goes into stable get into the
> current source (HEAD)?  And, isn't checking stuff into a stable branch that
> doesn't exist elsewhere in the source tree break some rules somewhere?  It
> has to.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Nik Martin
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:53 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Downgrading Asterisk
> > 
> > 
> > I upgraded to the latest HEAD version of asterisk, and all 
> > IAX calls started sounding choppy.  It was suggested on the 
> > IRC channel that I go back to asterisk -stable to determine 
> > if that fixes it.  Is downgrading as simple as upgrading?  
> > Because now, -stable builds fine, but I get an error on the 
> > asterisk console when starting, something about "ast_get_txt" 
> >  not found. Recompiling and installing asterisk HEAD 
> > afterwards works just fine.
> > 
> > As a side note, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.4.26 and 
> > had an issue with old kernel headers, but have since resolved 
> > that prior to trying this downgrade.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Nik
> > 
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