[asterisk-users] where is 1.4.12?

[Matt]

I guess that's my point.  I realize asterisk is open source and FREE,
however, I wouldn't expect a commercial application to crash as often
as I've seen asterisk go down.   Don't get me wrong (and we're kind of
going way off topic here), I really like asterisk, have done some bug
tracing.... but I don't posses any kind of programming know-how with
C... so fixing bugs is out of my court.

Again.. asterisk is an amazing product.  However, I guess what I'm
saying is, I've seen one too many "security upgrades" take a system
down because they induced new bugs.   Or a feature upgrade that causes
things to be broken (we're talking simple dot upgrades like 1.2.6 to
1.2.7 or something like that).

I guess my request is just that Digium maybe spend a little more time
in QA before rolling a release out the door.   It's just annoying when
you do what should be a dot upgrade, and find out  a feature that had
worked just one dot below has now stopped working, or worse yet
asterisk segfaults.    And when it's on a production system you can't
just "keep trying and get traces".

On 8/29/07, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have found the response to bug reports extremely impressive!  If something
> happens and I spend a bit of time to get good information to post to
> bugs.digium.com or put it in a bug thread that matches the problem I am
> having the response often can be very quick and sometimes resolutions can
> come with days or even hours.  Not just from Digium but 3rd party
> individuals as well.  These are usually not trivial bugs either but often
> very deep hard to reproduce bugs.
>
> I KNOW for a fact if I did have these problems with just about any other
> commercial product (they all have problems, you just don't know about them
> until they happen to you) out there I would be SOL or have to put in a lot
> more effort/time to get things moving forward towards a solution.
>
> This is a VERY powerful advantage of Asterisk that should NOT be overlooked
> IMHO.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Bryant [mailto:russell at digium.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:45 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] where is 1.4.12?
>
> Matt wrote:
> > Just to chime in.. we still have a few systems running 1.2.6 because
> > of Digium's inability to fix bugs.     Every version of Asterisk we've
> > ever tried has some sort of major bug that causes it to crash (it
> > being Asterisk) after being up for some period of time, or something
> > doesn't work right... then you'll have version X and version Y will
> > come out as a security fix only, yet stuff is broken in Y that wasn't
> > broken in X.
>
> "Digium's inability to fix bugs".  What a troll ...
>
> I'm sure you have never reported any of the issues you have experienced,
> either.
>  We surely can't fix them if they aren't reported.
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
> Software Engineer
> Digium, Inc.
>
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