[asterisk-dev] Thoughts on Asterisk release management

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:57:04PM +1000, David Bowerman wrote:
> Russell,
> 
> Good plan! and i'd support it 100%.
> 
> chan_mobile is a good case in point. its a 'new feature' that wouldnt
> appear until 1.6
> 
> there are loads of people backporting it to 1.4 because they want it
> 'earlier' and even some people backporting it to 1.2
> 
> shortening the release cycle will give people access to any new
> feature in manageable chunks.

I'm trying to understand what you write.

If you need chan_foobar that was added in 1.9, and your current PBX
runs 1.5 (released only a year ago), are you sure you'll be able to find
someone who'll do the backport?

Won't that channel use a number of new APIs that were introduced in 1.6,
1.7 and 1.8? If so, the backporting won't be trivial, or even possible.

Or will you upgrade your PBX every 3 monthes?

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