Hello,
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:29, Hugh Pettitt wrote: > Hi All, > > We have several government organisations who are pro open source and would > like us, Novell, to invest time in the Bacula community to help exand the > functionalities of the Bacula code. That would be very welcome. I'm a SuSE 10.2 user and pleased that SuSE has packaged Bacula and distributes it with their releases. > > Could you please tell me what the procedure is to become involved in the > community? I would also like to know if possible, which members that would > be interested in interfacing with a Novell engineering who could help on > the API side of things. You can get a good amount of information by reading at least the beginning of the Developer's manual, which you can find on the web site: http://www.bacula.org/developers/index.html It discusses the process of starting and implementing a project. It also discusses how to become a "developer" and have write access to the CVS -- since I have found Bacula developers to be very careful with their commits, it is a rather open system once a project is defined and approved. If you have a particular project you would like to work on, then the best is to discuss it with me, copying the bacula-devel list, where most all development activities take place. If you don't have a particular project, you can find the current list of projects in the main directory of the bacula CVS on Source Forge. The file is named "projects". It has been ordered in the priority that users voted on a few weeks ago. The priority is an indication of what users want and not an absolute since each requires a design and programmer(s). One of the weak points of Bacula is that it essentially has no API for interfacing to it. I hope that over the next few years, this can be corrected. Any help in this area (as you mentioned) would be much appreciated. It would help a lot if you could indicate more in detail what feature(s) you would like to provide help with. You can send your comments directly to me, or preferably to me and copy the bacula-devel list, to which you or someone should subscribe to become a part of the community ... Thanks for your interest in Bacula. Best regards, Kern > > King Regards, > > > > > > > > Hugh Pettitt > > Director Integrated Services > Novell France > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone:+33 1 55 62 50 59 > mobile:+33 6 82 82 78 92 > > Novell @ Salon Solutions Linux > du 30/01 au 01/01 ‑ CNIT Paris La Défense ‑ Hall Marie‑ Curie / Niveau ‑ > 2 > > > Novell, Inc. > Software for the Open Enterprise > www.novell.com/open > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
