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

[Paul Belanger]

On 11-05-05 04:11 PM, Mark Deneen wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Paul Belanger<pabelanger at digium.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 11-05-05 12:30 PM, Ira wrote:
>>
>>> At 07:56 AM 5/5/2011, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> So how can we fix this? How can we get more people involded? What
>>>> makes projects like FedoraTesting[3] and DebianTesting[4] popular? How
>>>> can the Asterisk project reproduce their success?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, it's not a lot of people willing to run beta software on their
>>> phone system. Phones need to work and for most people they need to work
>>> perfectly all the time. I'm one of those oddities that will always run
>>> beta software if given the chance but my experience is that quite rare.
>>>
>>>   I am not saying using production servers to test, rather reproducing your
>> production setups in a test environment.  You would then create test plans
>> or test cases of the features you use in Asterisk.  Once documented, for
>> each and every RC of Asterisk you go through the steps outlined in your test
>> plan / case, confirming this work as expected and then documenting the
>> results.
>>
>>
> Not everyone has spare dahdi hardware / analog T circuits, but I agree.
>
Yes, so in that scenario test cases / plans should be generic as 
possible so the underlying channel technology does not matter.

I realize certain situations or feature will require DAHDI hardware, and 
that is fine. People with the spare equipment can report back results if 
possible. However a test case which is create to verify app_voicemail 
can (as should) be run against all channel types; with the results 
documented as required.

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