[asterisk-dev] Keeping the 1.4 branch open

[Olle E. Johansson]

27 apr 2011 kl. 13.24 skrev Kevin P. Fleming:

> On 04/27/2011 04:03 AM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
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>> As I said, I did not want to start a discussion about 1.8 and no, I haven't had time to spend on opening bug reports with adequate information and following up subsequent requests. I have bug reports for pre-1.8 release regarding IPv6 that is still unmanaged though.
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>> Please don't focus on this right now. I want to be able to move forward and help stabilize 1.8, but currently there are no resources available for me to do that (as I stated earlier). The main issue for me here is whether you are going to stop supporting 1.4.
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> I hope you realize this is puts Russell and the Asterisk development team in a very difficult position; continuing to provide full support for Asterisk 1.4 detracts from their ability to improve Asterisk 1.8, and you're asking them to keep doing so for another 8-9 months (at least) because of undocumented (but presumably severe) problems in Asterisk 1.8.
Yes. Of course I know. I'm not happy by having to stay in 1.4 but that's my reality right now. I don't take it lightly, if that's what you assume.


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> The transition to 'security fix only' for Asterisk 1.4 was already pushed back quite a bit to take into account Asterisk 1.8 being released later than planned, and all of these dates were published quite a long time ago, so this should not be a surprise to anyone.
No, it's not a surprise. But we have no working replacement for 1.4. You are putting people in panic mode by shutting down support for 1.4. 

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> It has been proposed in the past that possibly such branches could go into a 'community supported' state, where the Digium team would only work on security-related fixes, but community developers would be free to continue applying bug fixes, and the release managers would continue to produce releases on a similar schedule to what has been done for the past couple of years. Maybe this idea should be revisited for the 1.4 branch.

Well, if we can find resources to manage that it's a working plan. If we can't find resources that can commit to managing a branch, it won't work.

I would hope that the "Asterisk development team" still has a wider definition than "Digium developers".  I don't think I'm alone still doing development work for 1.4.

Let's try to work out a solution here.

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