On Sunday 18 March 2007 18:22, Dan Langille wrote: > 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 > >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.
Yes, me too. However, at the moment, it doesn't pass the regression scripts, so there is a bunch more work for the responsible developers ... > > > 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! Yes, that one surprised me :-) > > > 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
