On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:

> I'm sending this email for several reasons.  One is to remind you 
> that I will be on vacation (a real one this time) beginning now 
> until when I am scheduled to return late the 9th of November.

Bonnes vacances... et bon retour... :)

> 1. I have requested help setting up more community participation
>    in testing, bug fixing, and builds of more platforms such as
>    Solaris, FreeBSD, ...  This is to ensure that all important
>    platforms are supported better than I could do alone.

Now that I understand something of the regress testing environment I 
can certainly participate with autochanger hardware.  I only run 
Linux so cannot participate in alternate platforms.

> 2. I am working on setting up some "official" structure or
>    structures for Bacula, possibly a Swiss Association, perhaps a
>    Foundation.  This will be so that in the near term (1-6 months)
>    Bacula will have a charter and a governing board, and equally
>    important, I plan to transfer the source and documentation
>    copyrights, which are currently held in my name into such a
>    "permanent"  neutral entity.  I believe this will help ensure
>    the health, and long term survival of Bacula as Free Software,
>    as well as to ensure that the project is less (no longer)
>    dependent on one person (me). Rest assured, this does not at
>    all mean that I envision decreasing my participation with the
>    project.

This all sounds reasonable to me and is encouraging that Bacula will 
have a long life.

    -- Michael

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