[asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - testing

[Olle E Johansson]

17 dec 2007 kl. 21.00 skrev shadowym:

> I do wish Digium or whoever tests this stuff had a more reliable way  
> of
> testing software releases rather than relying on feedback from the
> community.  Fonality, for example use what they call a "hammer"  
> which sounds
> to me like a bunch of servers running various stress tests on the  
> software
> to try break it.

Then we must have different opinions on how an Open Source project
works. Digium contributes a lot every day with a large team of  
developers
and give the community this work - new code and bug fixes - for free.

As a community developer I contribute my own time and time paid for
by customers who contract me. The community is the power of Asterisk
and what makes Asterisk what it is. I don't know who "whoever" is.

If you where talking about the Business Edition, you would be right.
And in fact, Digium has got a test team for that. And, as an  
additional plus,
all the things they find are fixed in the Open Source edition.

I have not seen any bug reports coming from Fonality - at least
not any bug reports or patches that I can trace from that source.
I do hope that they want to join the community so that the Open Source
version of Asterisk can benefit from their extensive tests!

Our problem is that very few in the community test beta releases
or development code. I want to send a big thank you to all that do,
you are very important in this process. And for those of you who
want to join, go to www.asterisk.org and find instructions on how
to download development code for testing. Join the "whoever
tests this stuff" group today :-)

Thank you for your thoughts on this matter!

/O