On 18 Mar 2007 at 16:27, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I'm considering the following ideas for the next couple of Bacula releases, > and would like your ideas. > > 1. Release version 2.0.4 in the next week or two with a couple more bug fixes. > > 2. Release either version 2.0.5 or more likely version 2.2.0 within 4-8 > weeks, > targeting 6 weeks.
I'm a fan of frequent releases. Smaller changes each time is a good thing. Both from a user and a sysadmin point of view. >From a packager, a new release takes me about 30 minutes, most of that is testing that it still builds. Other packagers may have different workloads. > Version 2.2.0, would be essentially the current Bacula trunk, which has the > following major changes from the 2.0.x stream: > > 1. The new SQL attribute insertion code, which runs significantly faster on > PostgreSQL, and for multiple simultaneous jobs runs with much less database > locking. I will certainly be looking forward to that. > 2. The red/black in memory restore code, which in my tests on restoring 800K+ > files, ran over 500 times as fast as the current code. WOO HOO! > 3. Some important new communications protocols that support bat. > > 4. A first cut of bat that "roughly" implements the same features as the > gnome-console. This is not much, but it does give a base for further > incremental improvements, and will permit easier user participation in the > development. \o/ -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
