[asterisk-users] *End Of Life ASTERISK 1.2.X Was: INSTRUCTIONSFORTHE ASTERISK COMMUNITY - PLEASEREAD NOW *

[Steve Totaro]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michael Collins
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:42 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] *End Of Life ASTERISK 1.2.X Was:
> INSTRUCTIONSFORTHE ASTERISK COMMUNITY - PLEASEREAD NOW *
> 
> > I think its a fair decision . 1.2 is very stable and they are not
> > closing it all together , security issues will still be fixed . They
> > need to concentrate more on 1.4 to make it bugfree .
> 
> Fair indeed.  I would guess that a completely stable 1.2 w/ security
> maintenance is acceptable to the majority of users.  Those folks still
> using 1.0.x certainly aren't clamoring for new features!  The great
many
> folks using 1.2 are happy w/ a stable release and don't necessarily
need
> new features.  A lot of those folks might consider moving to 1.4 when
> the stability issues and bugs are worked out.  Possibly there are
> features that they would like to have but they don't want to invest
the
> time and effort into a migration until they are reasonably confident
> that 1.4 will meet their needs.
> 
> I think that having the development team be able to focus the majority
> of their attention on improving 1.4 is better than having them split
> their time between the old and new releases.  I'm feeling like there's
> more ROI to be had improving 1.4.
> 
> -MC


I do hope that when they find major security bugs like the recent SIP
bug for example, that affected both 1.2.x and 1.4.x, they backport the
fix.  At least if the code base has not changed all that much and it is
only a few lines of code.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
KB3OPB