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

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:50:47PM -0400, David Boyd wrote:

> Not trying to start a flame war, however the issues that I see with 1.2
> and 1.4 are very similar to the issues relating to Redhat and Fedora.
> Redhat didn't want to continue supporting the open source model and
> convinced? the end user community to support all of the old releases
> based on the number of deployed systems.  

End users started "Fedora Legacy". That has actually never really
worked. They lagged in the security advisories they provided, as they
had no resources to do proper testings. Not enough people cared enough.

> If the user community really
> doesn't want the versions to go away, then they won't allow it to
> happen. 

The problem is that those who don't want the old versions go away tend
to be those with "rock solid" systems (not necesarily with quotes, but
at least this is how they should be). They are the least inclned to
experiment on their live systems. Their system owrk. What do they care
about other people's bugs?

> My question is this:
> 
> Will digium provide the needed support to the community to allow them to
> continue supporting the 1.2 release, 

I don't understand the wording here. Something I noticed at the
developers conference is that people have high expectations of Digium as
the "Asterisk Company" to devote substantial resources to Asterisk quite
regardless of its business plans.

> or will this prove to be related to
> business issues that the user community is not aware of, which will
> result in a much broader support of callweaver?

And then again, some people complain that Digium has too much control
over Asterisk and go over to CallWeaver.

Funny how people think.

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