On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Matt Florell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/20/08, Steve Totaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 08:25:54AM +0100, Olivier wrote: >> >> 2008/11/17 Philipp Kempgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >> > 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? >> >> > > >> >> 0>> > > 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> I think to a large extend, Asterisk is not to be considered as binary >> >> distributed at all, as many hardware it supports is not directly managed >> by >> >> kernel team. >> > >> > Interesting consideration. Debian Etch and RHEL5 are based on kernel >> > 2.6.18, but support quite a few hardware devices not included in that >> > kernel. >> > >> > If this issue bothers you, please help test the alternative timing >> > mechanism support now included in trunk. >> > >> > -- >> > Tzafrir Cohen >> > icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir >> > >> >> >> I still compile and install 1.2 for the most part, for call centers >> and large systems. >> >> The few 1.4 installs that I have done have been for "medium" sized >> PBXs, say 50-70 phones/users and they have been trouble free for the >> most part. Safe_asterisk may make some troubles transparent. >> >> I am not really sure what 1.4 has over 1.2 for the average PBX installation. >> >> Then you have the OpenPBX guys who forked 1.2, I know they have added >> functionality to 1.2, but the following puts me off. Perhaps >> vaporware, perhaps not, it all relies on the devs. You also have >> people like Matt Florell who have continued to add functionality to >> 1.2 but since Digium won't take them, or the dev doesn't want to sign >> over their first born, they are hard to come by but certainly out >> there. >> >> 1.4 may follow the same path, being forked. >> >> 1.6 is not on my radar. >> >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Steve Totaro >> +18887771888 (Toll Free) >> +12409381212 (Cell) >> +12024369784 (Skype) > > Hello, > > We really just maintain a set of patches for 1.2 (just updated > waitforsilence a couple weeks ago in fact) and we regularly install > 1.2.30.2 in call center setups. It is rock solid and extremely proven > in high-call-volume situations. > > We have started installing 1.4.21.2 on some systems that are not high > load as well (1.4.22 has some strange issues with it we have noticed) > because we do have clients requesting to use 1.4 for some of the nicer > PBX functionality that it has as well as better SIP support. > > We test 1.6 periodically and we are very much looking forward to some > of the great new features of it, but it crashes very quickly when > trying to use it in call center situations. just keep in mind that in > my opinion the 1.4 tree did not become usable until 1.4.18 when most > of the major bugs were finally fixed. > > MATT--- >
As a fellow call center engineerimplementer I completely agree with Matt's opinion. -- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype) _______________________________________________ -- 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