[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Time to lock down v1.1?

[Kevin Walsh]

Olle E. Johansson [oej at edvina.net] wrote:
> Rich Adamson wrote:
> > It's a known fact that bugs are not being fixed in Stable, and even Mark
> > has suggested no one should be running Stable in a production
> > environment. 
> > 
> Life as a bug marshal has been quite easy for a while, with Mark fixing
> bugs like crazy and not many new bugs being reported. I guess you do not
> want the bug marshals to fall asleep and live a bug-free life :-)
> 
> 1.0 will be the stable release. There hasn't been many fixes to that
> one lately, only MAJOR bug fixes has been applied. It will not be relased
> according to any plan, remember - this is Open Source. It will be released
> when considered stable with no open bugs.
> 
> 1.1 (today's head) is more of a "let's try if this works' release.
> Please spend time testing it. Remember, CVS HEAD, is not meant to be
> stable. Now and then, it might not even compile cleanly. It's
> a developer's release, at some point in future aimed to be stable.
> 
Considering that your "Mark fixing bugs like crazy and not many new bugs
being reported" assertion applies to the CVS head, perhaps 1.0 should
be re-tagged as 0.9 (or whatever), and the current head be branched
off to form a 1.0 release candidate.

Development (new features etc.) could continue on the head, with bug
fixes being applied to the new branch, with a view to a full 1.0
milestone release.

The current CVS head is reportedly more stable than the current 1.0
branch, and I can confirm its stability from my own use.  People have
been forced to move to 1.1 because of the timestamp changes that broke
backward-compatibility, so moving to the current 1.0 (stable this time,
honest) would actually be a downgrade.

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