[sr-dev] kamailio 1.5.5 and 3.0.4

[Jon Bonilla (Manwe)]

El Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:26:41 +0200
Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net> escribió:

> 2010/10/14 Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi, is it possible to commit some "featured" changes for 1.5.5? or
> >> just security fixes?
> >
> > stable branches are for bug fixes. New features can be committed in
> > development branches, otherwise will introduce instability to stable
> > branches for people relying on them.
> 
> Sure, I just meant a very small change in a module (regex). I use it
> in production for long months with no problems, so I wonder if it
> could be commited in 1.5.5 so I wouldn't need to modify the sources in
> new deployments :)
> 

I think that's a bad idea. There are lots of running installations that have
their standard kamailio and even their own patches. Including new features, or
behaviour changes could affect running systems in ways we cannot anticipate.