On Friday 04 September 2015 09.28:02 Philipp Storz wrote: > Hello Bruno, > > thank you for clarification. > > What you describe is readable both on the bareos.org website here: > http://www.bareos.org/en/download.html > > and also was added to http://download.bareos.org/bareos/ in the page header. > > What I wanted to add is that if you want to have the known bugs fixed, > you can use our nightly builds. > > They are basically tested and contain the newest code that is stable enough > to be published. > But as they will contain new features you might find new bugs. > Helping to find and fix those would then be your support for the project. > > Everybody that is using bareos in production should support the project by > buying a subscription to the bareos.com repositories, where you get > quality-assured stable packages. > > Our project cannot survive without support, which can be either by buying a > subscription > or by helping to improve the project. > > How this can be done is described here: > http://www.bareos.org/en/howto-contribute.html > > > Am 04.09.2015 08:41, schrieb Bruno Friedmann: > > On Thursday 03 September 2015 19.24:36 Michael Mol wrote: > >> The Bareos Yum repositories haven't been updated in quite some time; for > >> the 14.2 series, the Yum repositories' latest package is 14.2.2 (released > >> 2014-12-12). The next official release on the 14.2 branch was on > >> 2015-02-02, seven months ago, and 14.2.4 was released almost six months > >> ago. > >> > >> I filed a ticket a bit over a week ago ( > >> https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=509 ), but I haven't seen it so much as > >> acknowledged. I queried on IRC a couple days ago about what a polite way to > >> get developer attention to the ticket would be, and got no reply. > >> > >> So...what's a good, polite way to get the developers to update the yum > >> repos? Filing a ticket has not yet helped. > >> > >> > > It seems you don't have completely understood how the repositories are > > working. > > > > The binaries are released once a version is estimated stable enough > > last time the version was 14.2.2 > > This is what you've got publicly available on download.bareos.org > > > > Afterward, if a very blocking bug is found, (was the case in 12x series if > > my > > memory is right) another build may be published. > > > > It's up to you, if you need last binaries to > > a) pick the source and build from there > > > > b) Buy a subscription, download.bareos.com has always the last new version > > build > > and available here. > > > > c) May be there a third way, if you can monitor, and help on the build > > process. > > (no warranty) > > > > Why such a way may you ask? > > Building and maintaining an open source project, need $$$ to pay bills. > > The price of the subscription is very low honestly. > > > > I hope this help you to better know how it works. > > > > >
Thanks Philipp to have added clearly the 2 major way to help the project. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
