Hello,
I closed the voting on Monday and have tallied the votes. Thank you to
everyone who participated in this vote, both in defining the Feature Requests
and in submitting votes. In total, 61 votes were submitted and counted with
one that came in too late and was not counted (sorry).
The final order with the items renumbered is:
Item 1: Implement data encryption (as opposed to comm encryption)
Item 2: Implement Migration that moves Jobs from one Pool to another.
Item 3: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files from
Item 4: Implement a Bacula GUI/management tool using Python.
Item 5: Implement Base jobs.
Item 6: Allow FD to initiate a backup
Item 7: Improve Bacula's tape and drive usage and cleaning management.
Item 8: Implement creation and maintenance of copy pools
Item 9: Implement new {Client}Run{Before|After}Job feature.
Item 10: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Consolidation).
Item 11: Deletion of Disk-Based Bacula Volumes
Item 12: Directive/mode to backup only file changes, not entire file
Item 13: Multiple threads in file daemon for the same job
Item 14: Implement red/black binary tree routines.
Item 15: Add support for FileSets in user directories CACHEDIR.TAG
Item 16: Implement extraction of Win32 BackupWrite data.
Item 17: Implement a Python interface to the Bacula catalog.
Item 18: Archival (removal) of User Files to Tape
Item 19: Add Plug-ins to the FileSet Include statements.
Item 20: Implement more Python events in Bacula.
Item 21: Quick release of FD-SD connection after backup.
Item 22: Permit multiple Media Types in an Autochanger
Item 23: Allow different autochanger definitions for one autochanger.
Item 24: Automatic disabling of devices
Item 25: Implement huge exclude list support using hashing.
Since OpenOffice seems to be pretty terrible in exporting a spreadsheet, I
have posted my original OpenOffice file at
http://www.sibbald.com/download/1.39-wishlist-votes.sxc
for those of you who want to see detailed tallying of the votes.
As I have previously stated, this vote provides very important user feedback
on the direction that Bacula should take in the future. The top 5 projects
are encryption, migration, accurate restoration, a nice GUI, and Base jobs
(more efficient backups). I cannot guarantee that those will be the first
projects implemented, but at least we now have a good idea what is important
and what is less important.
By the way, work on items 1, 2, 4, 14, 16, and 22 is currently underway. For
item #1 (data encryption), Landon has recently merged his branch into the
main CVS tree for version 1.39. Nice work, concidering the complexity and the
fact that all the regression scripts pass. Item 4 (GUI) is progressing nicely
thanks to Lucus (see the bacula-devel list), and for item 16 (extraction of
Win32 data), Thorsten completed the implementation several weeks ago.
If you would like to see the detailed current list of projects reordered by
priority, please see:
http://www.sibbald.com/download/projects
It is also in the developer's CVS but will take a few hours to be transferred
into the public CVS ...
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Best regards,
Kern
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