[asterisk-users] Here is Step by Step Example of Asterisk PBX System Install and configuration

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:23:59AM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:
> Perhaps my thinking on this issue is wrong.  Do we need to keep up 
> with all the latest upgrades? 

Not directly, but there are reasons for that.

Asterisk is a codebases that changes. New features keep pouring in. We
strive to perform better. Occasionally fix a bug or two as well.

There's a reasonable chance your PBX will run into bugs. The farther
your version from where "the development happens", the more effort it
takes to debug and fix those bugs, because:

1. You need to check for more changelogs and such to see if the problem
was already fixed. This is why occasionally a disgrunted developer will
ask you in a bug report to check with latest version.

2. If the problem is fixed by the developer in the trunk (or whereever), 
it still needs to be backported to your version. Maybe this backporting
is trivial (same patch applies and works). Sometimes not.

At some stage a version will not be officially supported. This means
that reporting and fixing bugs will become more complicated.

So which is the stable 1.6.x version at this point?

1.6.0: 
  At 1.6.0.9. Has been "Released" for about half a year
  (1.6.0 was tagged at 9-9-2008 as -rc6 and released at 1-10-2008)
  Fully supported. As "Stable" it gets bug fixes only and no new
  features.

1.6.1:
  Currently a release candidate (rc5). Has been in the RC stage since
  28-1-2009. Before that it has been considered "Beta" since 3-10-2008.
  As such it only gets bug fixes and no new features.

1.6.2:
  Currently at Beta, which means advanced testing stage. Has been so
  since 19-3-2009 .
  As such it only gets bug fixes and no new features.

New features only go into trunk. Thus you'll see them in the next stable
release. Which will probably be in over than half a year (from what I
see in the current rate).

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