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.
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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....
