Tilghman Lesher schrieb: > On Monday 17 November 2008 12:46:10 pm Philipp Kempgen wrote: >> Tilghman Lesher schrieb: >> > On Thursday 13 November 2008 08:16:42 Klaus Darilion wrote: >> >> Is there somewhere a statement from Digium how long they will support >> >> Asterisk 1.4? >> > >> > There is no statement, because we haven't even discussed when the EOL for >> > 1.4 will be reached. Certainly that means it won't happen for at least >> > the next 60 days, but beyond that, I really don't know. >> >> For the average non-techie user who does not want to compile >> themselves that may sound funny (if not scary). >> >> When Debian Lenny (featuring Asterisk 1.4) is finally going to be >> released that version might not even be supported any more. > > Do you have a firm release date for Debian Lenny? I sure don't. Do > you have a guarantee from Debian that Lenny will even be released? > No, you don't have that, either. With a little bit of spin, you can make > Debian's release policy sound really, really awful. That said, I'm sure > Debian will release Lenny "when it's ready", which is exactly the same > policy that we have for new Asterisk releases. We release when it's > ready; doesn't sound so bad, now, does it?
No, doesn't sound bad. But what's your point here? >> Does that indicate Debian (don't really know about other distros) >> is too slow? >> Does it mean the development goes "too fast"? >> Is it a problem with VoIP in general? >> Does it mean there is no point for a distro to provide VoIP >> packages because if you want roughly the version everybody else >> is using you will have to compile it anyway? > > I'm in Engineering not Marketing, so I'm going to tell you the way it is, not > a fluff paragraph that means pretty much nothing. Thank you. > I find it interesting that > dropped my qualifying statement in your reply, which was: > >> > I think we will certainly invite input from the community before we decide >> > upon a firm date, however. Keep in mind that Asterisk 1.2 is still >> > receiving security updates as they occur to the broader Asterisk >> > spectrum, so even though it's not receiving bugfixes, it is still >> > somewhat supported, in that respect. As I didn't mean to complain about Asterisk release policy or anything I dropped that part because it wasn't relevant for my reply. My questions were more on a "philosophical" level and might as well have been posted on pkg-voip-maintainers or be discussed with any other maintainer of VoIP packages. Philipp Kempgen -- http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de - http://www.the-asterisk-book.com Amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied -> http://www.amooma.de Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer, Handelsregister: Neuwied B14998 -- _______________________________________________ -- 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