[asterisk-users] How long will Asterisk 1.4.x supported/maintained

[Philipp Kempgen]

Tilghman Lesher schrieb:
> On Monday 17 November 2008 12:46:10 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote:
>> Tilghman Lesher schrieb:
>> > On Thursday 13 November 2008 08:16:42 Klaus Darilion wrote:
>> >> Is there somewhere a statement from Digium how long they will support
>> >> Asterisk 1.4?
>> >
>> > There is no statement, because we haven't even discussed when the EOL for
>> > 1.4 will be reached.  Certainly that means it won't happen for at least
>> > the next 60 days, but beyond that, I really don't know.
>>
>> For the average non-techie user who does not want to compile
>> themselves that may sound funny (if not scary).
>>
>> When Debian Lenny (featuring Asterisk 1.4) is finally going to be
>> released that version might not even be supported any more.
> 
> Do you have a firm release date for Debian Lenny?  I sure don't.  Do
> you have a guarantee from Debian that Lenny will even be released?
> No, you don't have that, either.  With a little bit of spin, you can make
> Debian's release policy sound really, really awful.  That said, I'm sure
> Debian will release Lenny "when it's ready", which is exactly the same
> policy that we have for new Asterisk releases.  We release when it's
> ready; doesn't sound so bad, now, does it?

No, doesn't sound bad. But what's your point here?

>> Does that indicate Debian (don't really know about other distros)
>> is too slow?
>> Does it mean the development goes "too fast"?
>> Is it a problem with VoIP in general?
>> Does it mean there is no point for a distro to provide VoIP
>> packages because if you want roughly the version everybody else
>> is using you will have to compile it anyway?
> 
> I'm in Engineering not Marketing, so I'm going to tell you the way it is, not
> a fluff paragraph that means pretty much nothing.

Thank you.

> I find it interesting that
> dropped my qualifying statement in your reply, which was:
> 
>> > I think we will certainly invite input from the community before we decide
>> > upon a firm date, however.  Keep in mind that Asterisk 1.2 is still
>> > receiving security updates as they occur to the broader Asterisk
>> > spectrum, so even though it's not receiving  bugfixes, it is still
>> > somewhat supported, in that respect. 

As I didn't mean to complain about Asterisk release policy or
anything I dropped that part because it wasn't relevant for my
reply.

My questions were more on a "philosophical" level and might as
well have been posted on pkg-voip-maintainers or be discussed
with any other maintainer of VoIP packages.


   Philipp Kempgen

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