[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

Olle E Johansson oej at edvina.net
Sat Dec 15 09:40:45 CST 2007


15 dec 2007 kl. 15.42 skrev Steve Totaro:

> Johansson Olle E wrote:
>> Friends in the Asterisk community,
>>
>> I'm kind of interested in the slow uptake of Asterisk 1.4. Between  
>> 1.2
>> and 1.4 there's been a lot of
>> important development. New code cleanups, optimization, new  
>> functions.
>>
>> I realize that 1.4 at release time wasn't ready for release, but  
>> we've
>> spent one year polishing it,
>> working hard with bug fixes. The 1.4 that is in distribution now is
>> very different from the young
>> and immature product that was release before Christmas in 2006.
>> Testing, testing, testing
>> and hard work from developers has changed this and the 1.4  
>> personality
>> is now much
>> more grown-up and mature :-)
>>
>> I wonder if there are any major obstacles for upgrading.
>>
>> - Bugs that are still open?
>> - Bugs that are not reported?
>> - Not enough reasons to upgrade, since 1.2 really works well
>> - Just a bad karma for 1.4
>>
>>
> When Digium starts using 1.4 in ABE then I would consider using it  
> in a
> production environment.  All I ever hear is "soon", and I have heard
> that for months if not the whole year.  Until Digium itself is
> comfortable selling and supporting this version, then neither am I.

Steve,
That's very good feedback. Let's try to find out what's holding them.

/O



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