Ashwin, thanks very much for getting in contact with the Amanda mailing
list.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 06:16:02 +0000, Ashwin Krishna wrote:
> We are 100% committed to the open source community and will be
> contributing to the code base to the best of our abilities.
>
[...]
> I want to assure you that we are actively investing in growing Amanda
> and we have young enthusiastic engineers in the team.
>
> You can expect the next Amanda releases to include support for newer
> versions of operating systems, defect fixes, security enhancements
> etc.
>
[...]
> We have retained the team members that we could of previous Zmanda team.
> I can tell you that it's not easy without support from the community members.
> We encourage the community members to guide and contribute as much as you can.
> If you need commit access to the code base, please don't hesitate to reach
> out to us.
> You can expect our commitment and support to you.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 22:54:02 +0000, Ashwin Krishna wrote:
> We are planning to host a conference call and would like all the
> active admins and community members to join to have a discussion with
> the Zmanda team at BETSOL regarding future collaborations.
>
> Will be sending out the meeting details (US time) with the agenda later.
It sounds like getting the new BETSOL team in direct contact with
the admins for the mailing list and other amanda.org-related resources
in an important step at this point.
However, I would say that for many of us here on the list, the most
notable change in the past 7 months is not related those things (which
have continued to chug along as before), but rather the lack of "a
developer" to move things along here on the public lists and in the
public source repo.
A decade or two ago it sounds like there were a number of developers
involved, but more recently it's just been one or two Zmanda people who
have served that role.
Obviously this could be a good time to reconsider this arrangement if
there are in fact other people ready to jump in, but off hand I'm
guessing that what's likely to work going forward is for there to be
a small number of BETSOL developers back in that role.
As an Amanda user who has tried to contribute back a few improvements to
the code line, I'm not really looking to have direct commit access
myself, but rather hope to get back to someone (hanging out here on the
mailing lists) who can take the patches I came up with hacking around on
my own system and understand whether or not they will really work for
everyone, and who will know which branches should have that change
pushed onto them, and what tweaks are needed to make the patch apply to
some older branch, etc.
So, here's hoping you all at BETSOL are soon able to identify someone/a
few people to take over that function, and patches and discussions can
start flowing again....
Nathan
p.s. Personally I'd say that, rather than than a new major release with
support for newer versions of operating systems and whatnot., more
urgent would be a minor release to gather up the handful of bugfixes
which have already been discussed since 3.5.1 came out and get them
published as part of an official release....
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