[Asterisk-Users] chan_sip errors in CVS stable

[Olle E. Johansson]

*** SIP Channel fixed in CVS stable
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During a few days there's been a buggy SIP channel in CVS STABLE, but 
not in the 1.0.3 release tarballs on the FTP server and mirrors. We have 
  now removed the patch that was integrated by mistake so CVS should be 
ok again. As far as I know, this was the first error introduced in 
Asterisk STABLE since we forked into a stable and a development branch.

The Asterisk project has never before maintained a stable branch, so 
that is a very good track record. We are now improving the communication 
between developers and the maintainer of the stable source tree, Russel 
Bryant, in order to try to make sure that this does not happen again.


*** Run production systems on released code
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Please remember that almost every developer wants to develop new, fancy 
code and add functionality. Maintaining an old code base, being very 
restrictive in what you add, requires someone with a lot of integrity 
and good routines. Russel is doing a wonderful job and is propably one 
of the most important persons in the project right now, when we really 
need a stable version of Asterisk for production use.

The best way for you to avoid this, is to run production systems on 
releases, like 1.0.2 or 1.0.3. Before releasing a fixed version with a 
version number we always make sure that there are no known bugs in there.

*** CVS HEAD is not an alternative
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Do not jump to the CVS head in production, because there we are 
introducing new code every day, some of it more risky than other parts. 
There is simply no guarantee that that code base will do anything more 
than fill up a large amount of your hard disk drive. The only guarantee 
is that you will end up having to spend a lot of time testing the code 
for us, reporting bugs and suggesting improvements. You are much 
welcome, but make sure that you are doing this on a test system.

/Olle