Hello,
Kern Sibbald wrote: ...
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.
I'd move them all to their own projects.
Item 5 is a little difficult, I think, but the others are basically projects on their own.
Probably it's time to start a bacula client library project ;-) And then see if you can separate the GUIs from each other.
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.
Indeed I'd think that the manuals should be closely linked to the GUI development. After all, manual development seems to always lag behind code development, and keeping both in the same hands should tend to either keep the lag short or to abandon manual development completely.
Which, by the way, should be something in a sort of bacula project commandment: Thou shalt always make a good manual!
The manual is one of the most valuable items, especially compared to other open source projects.
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.
Sounds reasonable.
The bottom line is that the current bacula source tar release would be split into three separate packages:
bacula-core bacula-gui bacula-doc
Same here.
Probably it would be a good thing to put other, contributed stuff in a fourth tar like bacula-contrib. I'm thinking of some stuff in the examples directory.
Basically all the stuff that is not developed by the bacula team but might be helpful for other users.
Arno
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