[asterisk-users] where is 1.4.12?

[shadowym]

Just IMHO but you shouldn't be doing regular updates on a phone system that
is working well unless you are doing it to fix a specific problem.  It's a
phone system not a server.  I mean security upgrades as well.  At least not
until they have been out there for a considerable amount of time.  Yea I
know Digium says "you should upgrade to fix this dangerous security hole
immediately" sometimes but....again just IMHO......the odds of you having
problems with an unpatched system from some new vulnerability are much lower
than you messing something up by updating your system. 

Once it's in production and working well, ultra conservative walking on egg
shells second guessing any changes/updates you may be thinking about etc. is
the way to go. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt [mailto:mhoppes at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:48 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] where is 1.4.12?

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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