[asterisk-dev] chan_sip maintenance mode

[Corey Farrell]

I propose that we restrict the kind of bugs/patches that are accepted 
against chan_sip to only major/critical bugs, regressions and security 
fixes.  This means rejecting all new features, improvements and most 
minor bugs (AKA known limitations) reported against chan_sip.  I am not 
proposing we reject reports of crashes, deadlocks, major memory leaks, 
etc.  An exception would be new feature/improvement tickets where JIRA 
is being used to coordinate work - ASTERISK-13145 for example.  I 
believe we should allow people to continue using JIRA for such things, 
with the understanding that the feature is not going to be merged into 
any official Asterisk branch/release.

I'm interested in comments on this proposal from other current chan_sip 
users or anyone advocating for us.  The purpose of this proposal is to 
minimize the chance of regressions for existing chan_sip users, not to 
coerce anyone into migrating to chan_pjsip.