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

[Don Kelly]

Maybe some of the developers could work on stability and reliability while
others work on a smooth upgrade process and yet others work on usability.
Still others might look at enhancements, rather than considering a PBX as an
appliance like a toaster: works fine for bread, but when bagels come along,
scrap it and plug in the new model.

In today's environment, I think any technology needs to be considered
"inadequate to begin with." We can't always anticipate all of next-year's
requirements, and don't want every enhancement to require what was known in
the PBX world as a "forklift upgrade."

  --Don

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of shadowym
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 1:51 PM
To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

I would rather the Developers spend their precious time improving the
stablilty and reliability than creating a smooth upgrade process.  Not that
I don't think it is at least as reliable and stable as 1.2 right now.  It
seems to be for me in a low call volume environment.

A PBX should be looked at as more of an appliance than an application server
IMHO.  You shouldn't have to upgrade it unless it was inadequate to begin
with.  If that is the case you should be doing an install of 1.4 from
scratch anyways.

Just my opinion.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Knighton [mailto:phil.knighton at mjog.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 4:27 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

Hello

As a person who is somewhat a "newbie" to Asterisk, I have been given
the task of preparing our 1.2 installation for upgrade.  The thing that
has slowed me down is some of the gaps in information on the upgrade
process.  What's on the Wiki might make complete sense to both
experienced Linux users, and Asterisk users but as someone who is
feeling there way through - it's a bit daunting!

Considering how important a phone system is to a business, I'm loathed
to rush the upgrade through and have instead opted to install 1.4 on a
different box, and "port" our existing setup over to it.  This is a time
consuming process and has taken quite a low priority.  As Olle says -
1.2 works just fine.

Personally speaking, the upgrade process has to be even easier if people
are going to jump for it. 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Johansson
Olle E
Sent: 15 December 2007 10:57
To: Asterisk Non-Commercial Discussion Users Mailing List -
Subject: [asterisk-users] Upgrade to Asterisk 1.4 - it's one year's old!

Friends in the Asterisk community,

I'm kind of interested in the slow uptake of Asterisk 1.4. Between 1.2
and 1.4 there's been a lot of important development. New code cleanups,
optimization, new functions.

I realize that 1.4 at release time wasn't ready for release, but we've
spent one year polishing it, working hard with bug fixes. The 1.4 that
is in distribution now is very different from the young and immature
product that was release before Christmas in 2006.  
Testing, testing, testing
and hard work from developers has changed this and the 1.4 personality
is now much more grown-up and mature :-)

I wonder if there are any major obstacles for upgrading.

- Bugs that are still open?
- Bugs that are not reported?
- Not enough reasons to upgrade, since 1.2 really works well
- Just a bad karma for 1.4

When responding, remember that we don't add new features to 1.4 after
release, so I'm not looking for a wishlist - that's for the coming
release. We need to make a released product stable, not add new features
and potential scary bugs.

Success stories with 1.4 are also welcome. "Upgrading to 1.4 doubled our
revenues in a month and gave us 200% more quality in the voice channels"
or "Asterisk 1.4 gave us more reliable pizza deliveries and also fixed
the bad taste of the coffee in our vending machine". Anything.

Also, I would like input on what you consider the most important new
feature in 1.4.
I will try to make a list based on the feedback. Feel free to send
feedback to the list or in a private e-mail to me directly.

Let's make 1.4 the choice for everyone's PBX - from small home systems
to large scale carrier platforms!

/Olle

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* Olle E. Johansson - oej at edvina.net
* Asterisk Training http://edvina.net/training/




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