Hello, I would like to solicit your input and ideas on a subject that Scott and I discussed sometime before the 1.36.2 release, and that is: now that we have a nice LaTeX manual, thanks to Karl Cunningham, and a nice Web site, thanks to Michael Scherer, a French manual in translation, thanks to Ludovic Strappazon and others, I would like to focus for a while on Bacula GUIs.
To facilitate the development of GUIs, I have been considering to move some or all of the existing GUIs into a new area of the CVS dedicated to GUIs (bacula-gui). There are several reasons for doing so: 1. To reduce the size of "core" Bacula code. 2. To permit adding new GUI programs that are not currently part of Bacula's distributed code, such as web-bacula written by Juan Luis Frances, and JBacula (graphical configuration tool) written by Philippe Martin. 3. To encourage the development of other GUI programs for Bacula (possibly even ones that duplicate existing functionality). This will permit more code to become part of the Bacula project, while being supported by non-core code programmers. The question in my mind is: how much of the existing GUI code that is currently part of Bacula should be moved out to this new CVS area? Some of the existing code is: 1. The 2.0 Gnome console 2. The old 1.4 Gnome console 3. The wx-console 4. The tray-monitor 5. The CD image manager Your comments on this would be welcome. In addition, I have been considering adding a new GUI chapter to the manual, but, it might make more sense to start a new GUI manual where each developer of a GUI package could contribute his own chapter to the manual. Comments would be welcome on this idea too. Finally, once the conversion to LaTeX is made, as now is the case, I have been planning to move all of the documentation out of the main CVS into a new bacula-docs section of the CVS. The exception to this would be the release notes and the technical logs. Your comments on this would also be welcome. The bottom line is that the current bacula source tar release would be split into three separate packages: bacula-core bacula-gui bacula-doc -- Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
