Hello All , On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Johansson Olle E wrote: > 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 > > --- > * Olle E. Johansson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Asterisk Training http://edvina.net/training/
The one item mentioned in some of the responses to the thread that this message started is the modification of commands (dialplan & others) , variables and such . Tilghman mentioned these changes are collected in UPGRADE.txt . But (I have to admit IMO) , The procedure necessary to follow to get a system running 1.4 is not a upgrade path . It is a migration . ie: duplicate the system(s) running 1.2 successfully today onto seperate hardware & make the changes necessary to create a (near as possible) functioning system as the present systems & then swap them . If this path was more of a true upgrade path then 1.4 would probably be used far more than 1.2 . Hth , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network&System Engineer | 2133 McCullam Ave | Give me Linux | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fairbanks, AK. 99701 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users