[asterisk-users] Discussion: Are we ready to leave 1.4 behind?

[Kevin Keane]

> We have a discussion on asterisk-dev about the maintenance of the 1.4 branch. According to the release plans, support for 1.4 was scheduled to close in April 2011 - basically now. After that, only security patches would be committed. This is already a delay from the original plan published by Russell Bryant.

> Unfortunately, I think this is way too early.

I don't have first-hand experience or an opinion on this matter, but just wanted to comment on how refreshingly welcome it is to have this discussion at all - without Open Source, we'd simply be stuck with a "Vista" type software (if I believe those who expressed concerns about 1.8).

I do have one question: what about the ecosystem? Many people don't use Asterisk by itself, but as part of distributions (PBX in a Flash, Trixbox, ...) and with tools such as FreePBX to configure it. How ready is the ecosystem for moving to a new Asterisk version?