[asterisk-users] Discussion: Are we ready to leave 1.4 behind?

[Hans Witvliet]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 21:34 +0200, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> We have a discussion on asterisk-dev about the maintenance of the 1.4 branch. 
> According to the release plans, support for 1.4 was scheduled to close in April 2011 - basically now. 
> After that, only security patches would be committed. This is already a delay from the original plan published by Russell Bryant.
> 
> Unfortunately, I think this is way too early. 
> My feeling and experience is that 1.8 is not ready for production in the environments I work in - large scale installations. 
> Customers are not planning migration and all new installs are still 1.4.
> Tests we've been doing with 1.8 has failed within just a short time and so badly that customers has not paid me to spend any further time with 1.8.
> 

Just a thought
If "Digium" / "the community" realy want an objective way of deciding
whether can/should migrate to any other version, you realy need a
feature-matrix (pethaps starting from version 1.2.*)

And for every and each version a statement if it is:
- discontinued
- tested
- test finalized, result indicating it is fully and identically
functional
- test finalized, result indicating that this feature is changed in
either behaviour of configuration
- not yet tested.

I realize it is quite a job to do, but if done it would be for everyone
easily to see if it is worthwhile to start migrating.

Anyway for both documentation purposes and bugtracking it would be nice
if each and "every feature" has a unique numerique identifier.

And perhaps there is a fair chance that the people from the quality
department at Digium already have such a list.....


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