[Freeswitch-users] FS LTS version

[Francis]

Perhaps it wouldn't be necessary to add another line as such, but keep 
the production version around for an extra year or two and allow the 
development version to roll through a few releases before it officially 
becomes "stable". Or, have Stable, Testing and Unstable as per Debian.

Time the stable release with an updated Freeswitch book + cookbook, docs 
etc and it would promote a more cohesive and predictable platform to 
work with. Case in point, I deliberately stalled off a project until 1.6 
was released, because I didn't want to waste time on old code. I could 
get away with it in that instance, but in most cases, stalling = lost 
business.

Of course, the drawback of LTS is the delay of new features. Whether or 
not FS is at a stage where it (or we) could hold out for years between 
releases is a fair question to ask.

On 22/11/2015 7:32 PM, Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote:
>
> The core developers at the moment simply do not have the resources for 
> more than two lines of "official" development:
> - one has to be production, the one you use in servers
> - one has to be development, the one that will be the next production
>
> Because of effort put into allowong users time for transition, now the 
> core developers are maintaining three lines: 1.6 (production), 1.6 
> (development), 1.4 (old prodution).
>
> As obvious, in a short time will be necessary for core developers to 
> begin working on next release (1.8).
>
> Because resources are finite, is not possible to ask core developers 
> for maintaining an LTS as part of the community project.
>
> On the contrary, I believe this LTS thing can be a source of revenue 
> for a maintainer, or a company.
>
> Is a matter of taking care of security and bug fixes in a software 
> version you would not use, because is stale. Someone else is making 
> money from  that version you would not use, and is asking you to help 
> him milking.
>
> I believe that if there is enough commercial, paying interest in an 
> LTS, a single maintainer or a company will step out to take care of 
> it. Or maybe this revenue stream can allow for the.core developers to 
> hire someone for this purpose.
>
> Anyway, I believe that the key is showing a paying interest.
>
> So, how to do it?
>
> Crowfounding, kickstarter, etc... I'm not an expert, but those days I 
> believe is simple to assure there are money for a project.
>
> -giovanni
>
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> Giovanni Maruzzelli
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>
> Il 22/Nov/2015 09:12, "ik" <idokan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:idokan at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>
>     Hello,
>
>
>     It seems that every single year there is a new EOL (end of life)
>     of FS version (e.g. 1.4 at this time) and a new version series
>     that replaces it (e.g. 1.6).
>
>     The problem is that it's not a simple act to update production
>     servers.
>     When you have a lot of servers (in different clients and
>     locations) it's even harder.
>
>     Many products, including Linux, and even Asterisk have LTS
>     versions, and newer releases versions.
>     The new releases has new features and way to do stuff, but the LTS
>     get bug fixes and are stable for long period of time (usually 5
>     years).
>
>     What does it take to have LTS version with FS, that the new
>     releases will not stop, but EOL will be much longer for some of
>     it's versions?
>
>     Are there any plans for such things?
>     How we as a community can help?
>
>
>     Ido
>
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