[Asterisk-Users] Downgrading Asterisk

[Nik Martin]

The disconnect between HEAD and stable is what concerns me.  The fact that a
fix was put into Stable for the choppy audio on Cisco <-*->IAX that I
couldn't find in HEAD, and that didn't work when fetching and rebuilding
HEAD is what concerns me.  If it exists in stable (and works in stable), but
doesn't work in HEAD, I'm puzzled.  I worked at a very large development
shop whose software is used in mission critical public safety environments.
Changes would NEVER go into a release marked STABLE (and that were
consequently feature locked and bug fix locked) that weren't extensively
tested in the current development release. These changes would go into the
NEXT STABLE release, unless they were a show stopper type bug.  Also,
diffing the current HEAD between just a few revisions makes me quite
nervous, as a product that already has a STABLE branch shouldn't be showing
as much feature creep as this one does.

But, it's Open Source, and that's what you get sometimes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Steven Critchfield
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 8:14 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Downgrading Asterisk
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 07:59, Rich Adamson wrote:
> 
> > Although many of us that have worked in a production I/T 
> arena assume 
> > something called Stable would truly have known bugs fixed, that's 
> > hardly the case for *. That branch really should be renamed to 
> > something like v1.0 and remove any reference to Stable and 
> bug fixes 
> > as its treated as a lockdown for added functionality, and 
> has nothing 
> > to do with functional stability.
> 
> This comment shows you suffer from not understanding that 
> words have more than one meaning. Stable means not changing 
> much. A stable table doesn't fall over and not that it 
> doesn't have flaws in the design such as being only 1 foot 
> off of the ground. 
> 
> Similar people have the same mistaken opinion about Debian, 
> it is stable because it doesn't change much. Only things that 
> must change(security) gets changed in stable. Someone who 
> runs stable shouldn't have to worry too much about things changing. 
> 
> Remember the reason for stable, it is there to make a run at 
> a 1.0 code release. What software do you know of besides 
> "Hello World" has a bug free 1.0 release.
> 
> Please watch the inflammatory tone of your message next time 
> you criticize the free software you are using and the people 
> giving you
> their time.   
> -- 
> Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>
> 
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