Make sure to share the transcripts and recording on Youtube when
you're done for those of us who can't attend!
On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:05 AM Ashwin Krishna
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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: [email protected]
> 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 <[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....
>
>
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