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

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Jared Smith wrote:
> Now, let's do some quick math... Asterisk 1.2.0 was released in
> November of 2005.  That means almost 18 months since the feature
> freeze for the Asterisk 1.2 branch.  (In reality, it's longer than
> that because there was a feature freeze on the 1.2 branch before 1.2.0
> was released.)  Asterisk 1.4.0 was released in December of last year,
> but has been in a feature freeze state for almost a year now.

And Asterisk 1.2.18 STILL has show stopping bugs.  This does not make me 
feel all warm and fuzzy about moving to 1.4.x.  In fact, the idea of 
moving to 1.4.x right now scares the hell out of me.   I don't like 
crashing PBXs.  I don't like users screaming at me because they lost a 
million dollar contract because their phones were down half the day.

Asterisk is a PBX.  It should not have to be upgraded as often as some 
Microsoft server.  One of my customers are looking at moving to a 4 year 
upgrade cycle (mostly because that is the max length of support from the 
distro vendor they use)

No matter how much you test before deployment there will be issues that 
are not seen until you put the system under significant load in a real 
usage situation.