On Thursday 03 December 2020 20:03:24 Pavan Raj wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I agree that a next release is critical. > Our team looking in to the Amanda community will start working on a > new release from first week of Jan 2021. Please expect more updates on > the release next month. > > The team working on the website is different from the above team. > I was able to get their time after a long negotiating battle __ and I > don't want to lose their time. I will drive both the initiatives in > parallel. > > For a new release, we would require all of your contributions. > Chris (copied) will coordinate this effort. > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > V J N Pavan Raj | Director, Corporate Development | BETSOL | > [email protected] | (M) 1.720.448.7099 | (O) 1.720.506.5534 |Check > my availability (Calendar): HTML > <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/286f46fcf6044f1abe776b0ada >[email protected]/6ee159d851d2418a9ec4dff86793cff29195139419567815637/c >alendar.html> <https://betsol.com/> > > > On 12/3/20, 12:37 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of > Stefan G. Weichinger" <[email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> wrote: > > WARNING: This email originated from outside of BETSOL. Do not > click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and > know the content is safe. > > Am 03.12.20 um 07:04 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 00:26:08 +0000, Pavan Raj wrote: > > I could probably get excited about a revamped amanda.org website > > someday, but really getting a bugfix release out the door seems > > much more important. > > > > v3.5.1 was released December 1, 2017. Since then a number of > > fixes for bugs have been identified, but all those fixes are > > still not available for atual use anywhere, except for the few > > custom patches being applied by some distribution-specific > > maintainers. (There was an effort in November 2019 to collect > > some of the patches into the Zmanda git repo, but after that > > brief spurt nothing else happened.) > > > > Over the past couple of months we (here on this list) have > > identified several pretty serious bugs and come up with some > > apparent workarounds, but had no activity/help from Betsol > > developers in identifying the underlying cause and finding > > correct fixes for those issues, let alone in getting those fixes > > tested out and then incorportated into a release so users can > > avoid those problems in the future. > > > > So as an urgent first step, I'd definitely be in favor of a > > 3.5.2 release (and preferably a plan for subsequent minor > > releases coming down the pike) before any effort is spent on a > > website refresh...
More food for the veggie garden. We've been spreading that stuff for years now with no code fixes. Those of us who believe in the amanda way of doing things have about run out of patience, we want results. Git to it. Allowing the mailing list server to stay crashed for 5 weeks before someone told Todd K. shows just how much real interest betsol has. > I agree 100%. 3.5.1 is 3(!) years old now. And buggy. > > (sidenote: the font in the mockups isn't suited for technical > documentation in my opinion) > > Stefan [deleted confidentiality notice, which any lawyer worth his retainer will, if he is honest, tell you has no standing of record in any court on this planet] Copyright 2020 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) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
