[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

[Olle E Johansson]

>>
> Agreed.
> Given that our group has many 1.2 versions working well on CentOS 3.x
> boxes, and that 1.4 requires either 4 or 5, your option of starting  
> all
> over is about all that will work.
I would like to know a bit more on why Asteirsk 1.4 means that you have
to upgrade Centos? (obviously not a Centos user here :-) )

>
> Also, given that the few in the group that HAVE migrated, have now
> uncovered a new issue that I am sure isn't unique, where changes made
> from 1.4.13 to 1.4.15 cause a macro related to ENUM to fail. Smarter
> heads than I have so far been unable to uncover the cause.
...but has of course reported it to the bug tracker, right? :-)
>
>
> Even for those who don't place our business in the hands of the  
> whims of
> Asterisk, there are few reasons to make the change simply to have the
> latest and greatest?

Agreed. There's no need for us revenue-wise to push the user base  
forward,
since the revenue for Open Source licensing is zero. But there's always
a need to understand the user base and see what we can do to help them.

On the wishlist are maintainers of old versions and a test team, but  
that's
not very sexy roles for Open Source contributors, it requires special  
souls who
love maintaining a code base and working with the community, or just
get their kicks out of testing. People that get no thrills out of being
coding wizards, famous specialists focusing on adding new buggy  
code... :-)

Thanks for your feedback!

/O