On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:51, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > nice to see see you all busy again :-) > > After my vacation, I already upgraded to 1.37.36 to continue testing. > And I even skimmed the heap of list mail. > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > ... > > > 2. I've looked into the idea of creating a Bacula Foundation, and if done > > here in Switzerland where I live, it will cost about $2000-3000 to create > > and $2000-3000 per year for administrative fees (accounting, audit, ...) > > to run. At this point, this is not feasible. > > Actually I'd guess that raising a few thousand dollars a year doesn't > sound unreasonable, given the user base bacula has. > > How about first trying to implement some of the necessary > infrastructure, like setting up an account for donations, trying to > raise money by giving talks, etc., and the like?
You mean without changing the binary license? Corporations need an incentive otherwise most cannot give because the guy at the top with signature authority is worried about financial performance and does understand or trust Open Source. I'm trying to give them the incentive without the "enforcement" part. In any case, I am going to set up the structure under my name in the next couple of days. As soon as a longer term solution is available, I'll transfer it. > > Anyway, it's your time (the biggest part at least), and you've got to > decide what you do with it - I think we all can't complain ;-) > > ... > > > If you want to read about my idea, please visit: > > http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. > > I'll definitely read and perhaps comment - later. > > > 4. Bacula release status: I grossly underestimated the complexity of > > implementing multiple drive autochanger support, so the development > > version (currently 1.37.36) is not yet ready. It will most likely be > > about another month before it can be released (another week or two of > > fixes and at least two weeks of running without any major bugs). I > > mentioned this in the beta release announcement today, but bring it up > > again as background for the next item ... > > Anyway, thanks for the newer beta. In the last months, it got pretty > obvious that the current development was becoming more and more > difficult, and I - and most other users, I assume - greatly appreciate > your efforts. > > > 5. Future Bacula development: as I see it, the Bacula project is > > undergoing a major change at the moment. > > > > First, more and more features are being contributed rather than being > > developed by me. This is very desirable and is a good sign for the future > > of Bacula. My thanks go out to everyone who has contributed to this > > project, be it by a code submission, preparing a platform release, > > documentation, answering a question on the mailing list, ... > > > > In the case of the increasing number of code submissions, it is requiring > > quite a bit of adapting on my part: more time spent helping submitters, > > looking at their code, integrating it, testing it, documenting it, less > > time for me to program ... This isn't at all a complaint, rather the > > contrary -- relief that others are helping code. It will be interesting > > to see where it leads to and how it gets there. > > Mee too! > > :-) > > Seriously, though, what I observed during the last year was indeed a > shift from implementing and fixing a network backup solution towards > developing it into something suitable for larger installations with more > sophisticated needs. > > I'ts fun taking part in it, even if it's only a small part. I wouldn't call what you have done a small part :-) > > > Second, I'm hearing more and more requests for me to attend meetings and > > give presentations. This is something that I will devote more time to > > next year beginning in April. > > Glad to hear it, since I think that bacula has reached a state where it > some "propaganda" seems ok. > > ... > > > This modification may result in smaller more incremental releases > > containing only one or two features rather than the larger releases we > > have seen in the past -- perhaps something similar to how Linux > > development has evolved (purely coincidental). > > This at least should make bug fixing easier, I hope. Overall, assuming > enough developers participate, it might even lead to a faster > development of new features. > > Well, and now back to stressing 1.37.36... > > Arno -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
