Thanks for the feedback. I agree that a next release is critical. Our team looking in to the Amanda community will start working on a new release from first week of Jan 2021. Please expect more updates on the release next month.
The team working on the website is different from the above team. I was able to get their time after a long negotiating battle __ and I don't want to lose their time. I will drive both the initiatives in parallel. For a new release, we would require all of your contributions. Chris (copied) will coordinate this effort. -- Thanks & Regards, V J N Pavan Raj | Director, Corporate Development | BETSOL | pavan....@betsol.com | (M) 1.720.448.7099 | (O) 1.720.506.5534 |Check my availability (Calendar): HTML <https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/286f46fcf6044f1abe776b0adaadb...@betsol.com/6ee159d851d2418a9ec4dff86793cff29195139419567815637/calendar.html> <https://betsol.com/> On 12/3/20, 12:37 AM, "owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org on behalf of Stefan G. Weichinger" <owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org on behalf of s...@amanda.org> wrote: WARNING: This email originated from outside of BETSOL. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Am 03.12.20 um 07:04 schrieb Nathan Stratton Treadway: > On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 00:26:08 +0000, Pavan Raj wrote: > I could probably get excited about a revamped amanda.org website > someday, but really getting a bugfix release out the door seems much > more important. > > v3.5.1 was released December 1, 2017. Since then a number of fixes for > bugs have been identified, but all those fixes are still not available > for atual use anywhere, except for the few custom patches being applied > by some distribution-specific maintainers. (There was an effort in > November 2019 to collect some of the patches into the Zmanda git repo, > but after that brief spurt nothing else happened.) > > Over the past couple of months we (here on this list) have identified > several pretty serious bugs and come up with some apparent workarounds, > but had no activity/help from Betsol developers in identifying the > underlying cause and finding correct fixes for those issues, let alone > in getting those fixes tested out and then incorportated into a release > so users can avoid those problems in the future. > > So as an urgent first step, I'd definitely be in favor of a 3.5.2 > release (and preferably a plan for subsequent minor releases coming down > the pike) before any effort is spent on a website refresh... I agree 100%. 3.5.1 is 3(!) years old now. And buggy. (sidenote: the font in the mockups isn't suited for technical documentation in my opinion) Stefan Confidentiality Notice | The information transmitted by this email is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This email may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, be aware that any use, review, re-transmission, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is strictly prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from all computers.
