[asterisk-dev] Introducing the new ConfBridge

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <1299628487.28334.170.camel at russell-laptop.digium.internal>,
Russell Bryant <russell at digium.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 21:33 +0000, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> > I'm assuming that it will only be getting added to Trunk, which I think means it
> > could potentially be up to a year before it is part of a LTS release (1.12? 2.0?).
> > Is that correct?
> 
> That is correct.  It will be available in Asterisk 1.10 in Q4 of this
> year.  The next LTS (based on our current long term release plans) would
> be Asterisk 1.14 in Q4 of 2013.
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions

Interesting, thanks. No plans for a 2.0 then?

> > If so, how easy or difficult would it be for someone to port to 1.8?
> > Has Trunk diverged a lot in architecture from 1.8, or is it still pretty similar?
> 
> Trunk has diverged _SIGNIFICANTLY_ from Asterisk 1.8 in some very
> fundamental ways.  In my opinion, it would be much more effort and you
> would take on much more risk trying to backport any code that deals with
> media from trunk to 1.8 than to just use Asterisk 1.10.

That's useful to know - thanks!

Tony
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