On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 5:37:06 AM UTC-6, Anthony Melentev wrote: > Hello, when maintenance release for Bareos 15.2 is planned? There are > significant bugs fixed months ago, but fixes not available in binary packages.
Philipp explained the canonical answer: the maintenance releases exist, but you must pay for them. The flip side to that answer is the "open source" aspect - you are free to follow the GIT repo, building your own binaries as you see fit. The public github repository appears to have the appropriate tags and branches that would enable you to build your own maintenance releases. To forestall the usual firestorm this would cause on most mailing lists: this is perfectly acceptable for an open-source, GNU-licensed project. Nothing says anyone has to give you *binaries*; the license only says that you have to have the *source* code. Plus, from what I've seen, there is a noticeable amount of quality assurance, testing, optimization, and packaging effort that goes into those binary releases - and THAT effort isn't part of the open source project. I've done packaging (release engineering) in the past, and the price they're charging is quite reasonable IMHO. I would much rather just buy the binary subscription than figure out all the minute details of, say, how to integrate Bareos correctly into Solaris' SMF (a.k.a. init(8)) system. Lastly, you can always just run the nightly builds. That's what I'm doing right now. I'm sure I'll get approval to buy the maintenance release subscription the very same day my environment goes up in flames and I have to do a full DR restore :-(. -Adam -- 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.
