Kern Sibbald wrote: > We have mostly worked around these problems by strongly encouraging potential > developers to read the Developers Guide posted on www.bacula.org. It pretty > much covers all the points necessary to ensure that code submissions are > accepted. The problem is that not everyone reads this document.
Totally agree with you, not all the developers read the guidelines that they need to follow for take the changes into Bacula core. > As you point out, sometimes it can be a big waste of time discussing with a > potential developer the details of a project because 9 times out of 10 > despite their good intentions, programmers just don't have the time to do > everything they would like to do. You're right too. I'm working with Bacula for a year or less and some developers come to me with doubts, ideas and some others. I discussed with they the ideas around Bacula and I think all are implemented or just in timeline for next release. > Once we see that a developer is serious, we (I) do spend a lot of time > (generally off list) helping developers with design, questions, coding, > understanding Bacula, ... Good, at sometime I need to hack Bacula core. When I need this I will like to learn from the developers (you in first) > One user suggested to me that a blog may be a good way to encourage more > participation without costing too much extra load on the developers, so I > have just enabled Wordpress for Bacula and posted a test ... I can't understand what you really need here: Trac? Redmine? Wiki? Can you explain me what you need? Cheers Reynier ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
