[Asterisk-Users] Downgrading Asterisk

[Steven Critchfield]

On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 07:59, Rich Adamson wrote:

> 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.

This comment shows you suffer from not understanding that words have
more than one meaning. Stable means not changing much. A stable table
doesn't fall over and not that it doesn't have flaws in the design such
as being only 1 foot off of the ground. 

Similar people have the same mistaken opinion about Debian, it is stable
because it doesn't change much. Only things that must change(security)
gets changed in stable. Someone who runs stable shouldn't have to worry
too much about things changing. 

Remember the reason for stable, it is there to make a run at a 1.0 code
release. What software do you know of besides "Hello World" has a bug
free 1.0 release.

Please watch the inflammatory tone of your message next time you
criticize the free software you are using and the people giving you
their time.   
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>