On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Leif Madsen <lmadsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wholeheartedly agree with Dan and Paul here. Asterisk 12 should be > considered a development release that can change within minor versions in > order to be as feature and API complete as possible for the next LTS. > > If this isn't the intention of the standard releases then my understanding > of the discussions around them at AstriDevCon was mistaken. > > To clarify: my issue is with renaming the event, and only with that. While Asterisk 12 is a Standard release, that doesn't change the fact that ARI was released in this version - and this is still a released version of Asterisk. The guidelines for what can be proposed for a change in this version of Asterisk are up on the wiki [1] - and while those guidelines are fairly loose and do not explicitly say "no breaking changes", it isn't a free for all. Disregarding Asterisk 12, in any version of Asterisk - future or released - we shouldn't introduce a breaking change on a whim. To compound this, ARI follows semantic versioning [2]. A backwards incompatible change would mean that we would bump ARI to 2.0.0. While I agree that the event name was chosen poorly, changing the name of an event mid-stream is pedantic. It isn't strictly necessary. If we're going to bump something to 2.0.0, I'd rather it be for a much more sweeping and important reason than "I don't like the name of this event". Let's try to come up with another approach here, one that doesn't require a backwards incompatible change. [1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Software+Configuration+Management+Policies#SoftwareConfigurationManagementPolicies-NewFeatures [2] http://semver.org/ -- Matthew Jordan Digium, Inc. | Engineering Manager 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville, AL 35806 - USA Check us out at: http://digium.com & http://asterisk.org _______________________________________________ asterisk-app-dev mailing list asterisk-app-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.digium.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-app-dev
