[Asterisk-Users] *** Asterisk Sunday News: Gone Fishing...

[Rich Adamson]

> From: "Olle E. Johansson" <oej at edvina.net>

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> *** What's a stable release, anyway?
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> The problem we are facing now is that a fix to a major timing problem,
> that affects audio quality, has been done to cvs head. The fix is not
> a few lines of code to one file, but a lot of changes to a lot of files.
> It is so much that it really makes it hard to also fix "stable".
> And there's no consensus that the fix has solved the problem.
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> This is a dilemma for people that wants to use Asterisk in production.
> 
> We have the following menu:
> * RPMs and Tarballs - these are the releases, really, at this point old,
>    includes the audio bug
> * CVS stable - with the audio bug
> * CVS head - with new code, possily some unknown bugs

Relatively minor correction to the above...

The Stable cvs did have the iax2 timing fix applied as of May 21st (I 
think that was the date). However, there seems to be a case that 
channel_capi still needs attention.

A goggle search and review (look for asterisk-cvs) indicates the majority
of fixes are actually being applied to Head and very few to Stable (and
its not because the bug didn't exist in Stable either). Head is now 
more stable/usable (eg, fewer bugs) then is Stable. As previously
stated, its time to lock down Head, fix the few remaining bugs, and 
make "it" the well-overdue & historic v1.0 production release.