Hello, From time to time, I like to send out a status report to give you a feel where we are going from the developer's point of view.
Bacula Design Process: =============== Last week when I was traveling there was a nice discussion about "Better support for portable clients", but the problem is that sometimes especially if you come into the thread late, it is very difficult to have a global view of the emails that were exchanged. I lamented a bit about this saying that we need a better design process, and Mike Ruskai suggested starting a Bacula blog (many thanks). At first I was a bit skeptical, but I did enable Wordpress blogging for Bacula on the Source Forge site, and a few of us have tried it out. It is a bit of a learning curver for a non-blogger like myself, but the system look quite promissing. Some of the posts that I have made are still a bit rough around the edges, but that should improve with time. If you are interested in participating in the Bacula design process, I suggest that you take a look at: http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/ where you can read about some of our current projects, design specifications, and performance testing. You must login to Source Forge to be able to add comments. Most of you probably don't realize how much time I spend on design specifications, because I consider design to be one most important aspects of developing Bacula. Since the project doesn't involve a huge number of programmers, the design process has been a bit informal, with just text file notes or emails between developers. Hopefully this blog will help improve the process. MySQL bug: ======== Due to the nightly regression testing, we have discovered a segmentation fault in the MySQL server (a MySQL bug that causes Bacula Jobs to fail). For the moment, the problem seems to be limited to: OpenSolaris 2009.06 with MySQL 5.1 (5.1.30) The bug report filed on this issue (by someone else) is at: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11351 Thanks to Marco and Philipp for their regression testing and tracking down the source of the problem. Bacula Version 3.0.3: ============== We are planning to release a bug fix update to the current release version (3.0.2) probably by mid-October. The regression tests are showing it to be quite stable. It is ready for release, but we are hoping to find time to correct a few more bugs before the release. Source Forge: ========== There are a number of annoying things about Source Forge where we post our Bacula releases. The most recent one is that their newly designed web interface has a place on each project page that shows a vote of people who visit the page. What annoys me about it is that it is annonymous, and many of the votes cast have no comment on them, so if it is a negative vote, it is not possible to understand why. Bottom line: I encourage all of you to cast your vote on the Source Forge Bacula page. If you give us a thumbs down, please include a reason. If you give us a thumbs up -- thanks in advance. Travel: ===== Recently I did a bit of traveling -- first 4 days in Moscow as part of the Economic Promotion delegation of the canton of Vaud where I live in Switzerland. It was very interesting, and I had the good luck to be able to visit the offices of AltLinux. They have created a backup release based on their Linux OS and Bacula which can be used as a backup appliance, and they have made some nice submissions to the project. Last week I visited Köln (Cologne in English I think) Germany where dassIT held an all day Bacula conference on the 23rd of September. It was very nice to meet and discuss with a large group of Bacula users (something like 55-60 people). Hopefully in the not so distant future we can organize more such Bacula conferences. Thanks for using Bacula, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
