On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Dan Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Matt Fredrickson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> It is with great pleasure I wish to inform you of the first beta >> release of the new Asterisk 15 branch. It's a very exciting time to be >> a user of Asterisk! Asterisk 15 is arguably the biggest release of >> Asterisk that has happened in the last 10 or so years. There has been >> a lot of work done in the Asterisk core to better support newer >> multi-stream video and WebRTC related technologies. For those who are >> interested, much of this will be covered in blog posts at >> http://blogs.asterisk.org/ over the next month or two. >> >> Typically, when a new major branch of Asterisk is created (13, 14, >> 15...), there are a few months of testing on the new branch that >> occurs prior to release in order to find regressions and other issues >> that may cause a first official release from the branch to be dead on >> arrival for a significant number of users. With today's release of >> 15.0.0-beta1, this process has begun. Please feel free to start >> testing this version of Asterisk in as many adverse environments as >> possible. Any bugs should be reported on the Asterisk issue tracker at >> https://issues.asterisk.org/ >> >> As a side note, due to many of the core changes in the 15 branch that >> have been made since Asterisk 14 was released, it has been decided >> that Asterisk 15 will not be an LTS release. For those of you who are >> not familiar with the differences between LTS versus standard >> releases, you can find more information here [1]. >> >> Thanks to all the many Asterisk community members for providing so >> much help and support to make Asterisk the great open source project >> that it is. >> >> P.S. Binary codecs and other modules distributed by Digium are not >> immediately available for 15.0.0-beta1, but should be shortly. >> >> Best wishes to all, and happy testing! >> >> [1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions >> >> -- >> Matthew Fredrickson >> Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager >> 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA >> >> -- >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-dev mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev > > > After talking to Sean McCord about this, I realised you didn't say anything > about releasing a new LTS; which you don't _have_ to do but personally I > have clients who are looking to use new features in 14 under an LTS and > that's what we were expecting - I'm sure there are businesses out there that > still want an LTS to move to. > > The reason we are all expecting an LTS is because of this line in the wiki > on the page you linked to "New releases of Asterisk will be made roughly > once a year, alternating between standard and LTS releases." > (https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+Versions) > > I'd like to propose that we make 14.6 (or later) the LTS in a similar > fashion to how other communities are now promoting versions to LTS mid cycle > (https://github.com/nodejs/LTS). That way you get to release all the > exciting things that are in 15 but as a community we get LTS support on > everything thats now in 14 - as we know, some businesses will not move to a > non LTS and I think it would be a real shame to not get particular > organisations moved over to using some of the great things that have been > added in 14. > > What are everyone's thoughts?
Just wanted to let you know that I've seen this, only I've been quite busy with a few other things and haven't had time to think and decide what my thoughts are. -- Matthew Fredrickson Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-dev mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-dev
