On Monday 25 March 2019 02:40:56 pm Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 20.03.19 um 18:53 schrieb Gene Heskett: > > 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. > > And you are still welcome as an outstanding amanda user for years now > ;-) > > best wishes for your heart, btw > > -
Well, I have now updated my main machine, and the amanda server to stretch, and updated to latest. But no version of amanda I have will build on stretch. Betsol has put up paywalls at zmanda so theres no source available there. > > aside from that I'd like to keep the latest discussion alive. > > In some off-list emails the suggestion came up to prepare a > github-repository forked off > > https://github.com/zmanda/amanda So I dlded the amanda-master.zip from git-hub, but it will not register me because my email is already taken, and its the only one I have. I am a member at another project but its never sent me an email yet in the time since git-hub started. It seems nitros9 now has repos several places besides the hg based one I used for years. Nitros9 is what became of an aftermarket os for the trs-80 Color Computer, and now can be run on dragons too, which is the japanese version of the "coco" with a parport the coco doesn't have. Modeled on unix w/o all the security stuff, nitros9 in the early days, is the main reason I've only owned a windows machine for about a month, which got wiped and mandrake installed when I found the windows drivers for its broadcom radio couldn't run the radio card in it. So I really am a windows dummy. To me, windows IS a virus, to be medicated with a drive wipe and linux install. Anyway, I'll soon find out if this zip will build on debian stretch. More later, probably with some invective... > (there are many: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/network/members) > > *plus* the patches since early 2018 which only landed in > sourceforge-svn: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/amanda/code/7719/log/?path= > > - > > I am currently trying to come up with that ... a bit of tooling around > with "git svn" etc > > Any help welcome here. > > Based on that we would be able to merge some of the pull-requests > filed here: > > https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pulls > > if they are filed against the new repo again. > > And from there maybe roll some beta-tarballs and solve some issues: > > https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues > > I'd also suggest to move *some* of the bug-related threads over into > github-Issue-threads then. IMO it's easier then to exactly relate the > communications to the exact lines and patches in the code etc / but > that's a detail for the future already. > > - > > The main question is if there are any amanda-hackers left here who are > knowing the code well enough to take over the dev-work ... and want to > contribute. > > So far JLM has stayed quiet for a year or so, we don't know. > > @JL: if you read this (I am quite sure), please know that we all > appreciate your work done for this project and would like to at least > read that you are doing well. > > Even better (for amanda) it would be if you could contribute again or > help others to take over. > > - > > Maybe we just do what @Betsol (1) was waiting for: taking up the work > ... > > I don't know. > > Just be assured that I would like to keep on contributing docs, > questions, testing and maybe some organization work. > > Looking forward to any suggestions etc > > Stefan > > (1) ashwin.kris...@betsol.com in CC: , just in case. 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>
