On Tuesday 02 October 2018 12:34:40 Ashwin Krishna wrote: > Hi All, > > We propose to have the call on Oct 8th at 11 AM Mountain Time. > > Agenda: > * Zmanda's Acquisition by BETSOL > * Attendee Introductions > * Existing Governance Model of Amanda Community > * Suggested changes to the Governance Model > * BETSOL's Commitment to Open Source Community > > We have taken a note of all the suggestions received on the mailing > list and we will go through the same on the call. > > Meeting Details: > Amanda Open Source Community Discussion > Mon, Oct 8, 2018 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT > Please join my meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. > https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/438069045 > You can also dial in using your phone. > United States: +1 (786) 535-3211 > Access Code: 438-069-045 > First GoToMeeting? Let's do a quick system check: > https://link.gotomeeting.com/system-check > > Regards, > Ashwin Krishna > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:01 PM > To: Ashwin Krishna <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of > Amanda development? > > Ashwin, thanks very much for getting in contact with the Amanda > mailing list. > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 06:16:02 +0000, Ashwin Krishna wrote: > > We are 100% committed to the open source community and will be > > contributing to the code base to the best of our abilities. > > [...] > > > I want to assure you that we are actively investing in growing > > Amanda and we have young enthusiastic engineers in the team. > > > > You can expect the next Amanda releases to include support for newer > > versions of operating systems, defect fixes, security enhancements > > etc. > > [...] > > > We have retained the team members that we could of previous Zmanda > > team. I can tell you that it's not easy without support from the > > community members. We encourage the community members to guide and > > contribute as much as you can. If you need commit access to the code > > base, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. You can expect our > > commitment and support to you. > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 22:54:02 +0000, Ashwin Krishna wrote: > > We are planning to host a conference call and would like all the > > active admins and community members to join to have a discussion > > with the Zmanda team at BETSOL regarding future collaborations. > > > > Will be sending out the meeting details (US time) with the agenda > > later. > > It sounds like getting the new BETSOL team in direct contact with the > admins for the mailing list and other amanda.org-related resources in > an important step at this point. > > > However, I would say that for many of us here on the list, the most > notable change in the past 7 months is not related those things (which > have continued to chug along as before), but rather the lack of "a > developer" to move things along here on the public lists and in the > public source repo. > > A decade or two ago it sounds like there were a number of developers > involved, but more recently it's just been one or two Zmanda people > who have served that role. > > Obviously this could be a good time to reconsider this arrangement if > there are in fact other people ready to jump in, but off hand I'm > guessing that what's likely to work going forward is for there to be a > small number of BETSOL developers back in that role. > > As an Amanda user who has tried to contribute back a few improvements > to the code line, I'm not really looking to have direct commit access > myself, but rather hope to get back to someone (hanging out here on > the mailing lists) who can take the patches I came up with hacking > around on my own system and understand whether or not they will really > work for everyone, and who will know which branches should have that > change pushed onto them, and what tweaks are needed to make the patch > apply to some older branch, etc. > > So, here's hoping you all at BETSOL are soon able to identify > someone/a few people to take over that function, and patches and > discussions can start flowing again.... > > Nathan > > p.s. Personally I'd say that, rather than than a new major release > with support for newer versions of operating systems and whatnot., > more urgent would be a minor release to gather up the handful of > bugfixes which have already been discussed since 3.5.1 came out and > get them published as part of an official release....
+10, the 3.3.7p1 planner in particular is in serious need of help. It refuses to adjust the schedule of the 3 largest members of my disklist, choosing instead to do all three level 0's on the same run, so a 30 gig average backup, has become 24 gigs for many nights, followed by a 60+ gig run using 3 vtapes. 5 or 6 tapelist cycles in a row now. I'd build this mythical 3.5.1 but its been hidden someplace my browsing has not found. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >------ Nathan Stratton Treadway - [email protected] - Mid-Atlantic > region Ray Ontko & Co. - Software consulting services - > http://www.ontko.com/ GPG Key: > http://www.ontko.com/~nathanst/gpg_key.txt ID: 1023D/ECFB6239 Key > fingerprint = 6AD8 485E 20B9 5C71 231C 0C32 15F3 ADCD ECFB 6239 Copyright 2018 by Maurice E. Heskett -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
