[asterisk-users] *End Of Life ASTERISK 1.2.X Was: INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASTERISK COMMUNITY - PLEASEREAD NOW *

[John Novack]

A common attitude in the development community.
Keep adding more bells and whistles, it's more fun and interesting.
Don't bother to fix the many existing problems. That is boring

Peg Leg O'Brien

Steve Totaro wrote:
> Rather hasty I think.  I think whatever version 1.2.X winds up on should be the most stable release of Asterisk, period.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
> http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com
> KB3OPB
>  
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Olle E Johansson
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 5:19 AM
>> To: Users Asterisk
>> Subject: [asterisk-users] * INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASTERISK COMMUNITY -
>> PLEASEREAD NOW *
>>
>> Welcome to the Asterisk users community!
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> Asterisk is the leading Open Source Telephony platform,
>> with support both for classical telephony and IP telephony.
>> Asterisk.org is a fast moving project. New code is added every
>> day.
>>
>> Our community is also growing fast and we're having a lot
>> of interaction, on the IRC and on the mailing lists.
>>
>> It's great to have you participating in this Open Source project
>> - building an Open Source PBX. Here are a few things to know and
>> remember while working with the project.
>>
>> Last week we had the annual AstriDevCon - the Asterisk Developer's
>> Conference. At that meeting, core developers and project members
>> meet to discuss current and future issues, new designs and - equally
>> important - get a chance to know each other behind the acronyms
>> in the bug tracker and on the IRC. We had a great week where we
>> got a lot of important things done, as you can see on the number of
>> changes that was done to Asterisk during that week.
>>
>> One decision that we took was to stop maintaining 1.2 as a current
>> release from August 1st 2007. At that date, we will move 1.2 of
>> Asterisk,
>> Asterisk-addons, libpri and zaptel to security maintenance status.
>> 1.4 will at that point be the recommended release.
>>
>> Between now and August 1st we will focus on fixing open issues
>> in 1.4 to make sure it's production quality code. Please help us with
>> that by  answering questions quickly in the bug tracker, testing
>> and reporting issues. Together, we'll make sure that 1.4 becomes
>> a great product.
>>
>> Again, welcome to the Asterisk.org Open Source PBX Project!