On Wednesday 20 March 2019 12:13:54 Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: > Random thoughts from a former developer and Zmanda employee, and OSS > enthusiast at Mozilla. > > As you've said, forking is cheap and easy and easily reversed. > Sometimes the mere use of the term stirs the idle to action, but it > seems that has not happened in this case. So I'd say, fork away. > `amanda-backup` might be a good github org name. While I don't have > time to hack on Amanda anymore, I'd be willing to help with mechanics > and administration if it's useful. > > If that fork is successful, we'd need to do some administrative > organizing to ensure that we speak with one voice and that a release > can be considered to come from "Amanda Developers" and not one > person's whim. And probably to set expectations for maintenance of > the project. That will end up being quite a bit of work, so it might > be a good idea to get some public commitment from several people > before pulling the cord. > > Dustin > > P.S. Having worked with JLM for a while, I can say he's a very private > person and may not want to share whatever personal circumstances have > caused him to stop contributing. Not having his input is a loss for > the project, but I doubt he's being silenced.
The sudden silence from JLM did beg for the question to be asked, and I'm fairly famous for that, so it was mentioned. I hope you are well these days Dustin. I had to have a pacemaker installed back in January. I guess its a sign of the 84 years that makes me the resident old fart on some lists. Take care. Copyright 2019 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) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
