Gentle Reminder : We are started the call. Meeting Details are below. 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
-----Original Message----- From: Ashwin Krishna Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2018 10:35 AM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: RE: Zmanda acquired from Carbonite by BETSOL -- future of Amanda development? 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 <natha...@ontko.com> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 9:01 PM To: Ashwin Krishna <ashwin.kris...@betsol.com> Cc: amanda-users@amanda.org 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.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Stratton Treadway - natha...@ontko.com - 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
