Hello, Bad version 5.2.11 release: Yesterday, we released Bacula version 5.2.12, which fixes a serious segment fault in Bacula version 5.2.11. Thanks to Marco, who quickly found the problem and fixed it. Prior to releasing 5.2.11, it was carefully tested, so it points out a flaw in our regression tests, which I will fix before the next release. I am sorry for the inconvenience this caused a good number of you.
If you have downloaded version 5.2.11, please replace it with version 5.2.12 Status: One user wrote sometime ago that he was upset that the Bacula project was stalled. I am not sure where he got that idea, perhaps the time between two releases was a bit long because we were doing more development than normally, but I can assure you that the project is not at all stalled. Some examples: From version To version Number of lines of "git diff" 5.2.10 5.2.12 41,265 latest "minor" release 5.2.0 5.2.12 154,400 from beginning of 5.2 releases 5.0.3 5.2.12 464,364 from last of previous major version So even though the count of lines of diff is not a scientific measure of the amount of work done or the number of new features, you can see that the figures above represent a significant development effort. This development effort comes from three groups: 1. Bacula Systems 2. On going Bacula project developers 3. Community contributions In one sense people in #2 are also community contributions, but my point is that they are people such as Marco, and others who have worked for the project and regularly provide help. I much appreciate these contributions. Overall, Bacula Systems, is probably the #1 contributor since about 3 years. My time: Due to my heavy workload in ensuring certain administrative aspects of Bacula Systems as well as working on major Bacula Systems programming projects, I am attempting to optimize my use of time. One way I plan to reduce my workload is to stop doing the updates necessary to maintain the Windows platform as well as the Windows builds. As a result, there are no Windows binaries for Bacula version 5.2.12 -- this isn't a very big problem since there were very few changes to the FD, if any, so everyone can continue using the 5.2.10 Windows binaries. However in the long run (9 months to a year) when significant changes are made to the Windows code or the libraries that they use, this will become a problem, so it would be nice to find an alternative. There are three alternatives that I can see: 1. You build them yourself, as you do with the Linux binaries (unless you use distro binaries, which can be quite old and out of date). 2. Some community user learns how to build them and makes them available. 3. Bacula Systems supplies them. Comments about the above: 1. Build your own is not too practical, because you need to be a C++ programmer and have a number of mingw tools built and loaded. The process is well documented, but not very easy to setup. 2. Having a C++ knowledgeable community member build them is a bit more practical, but it is often hard to find volunteers and as is just a fact of open source life, the volunteer's life, time, or priority changes and they don't often continue long term. 3. Having Bacula Systems build them would work nicely since it is a long term solution. The only consideration is that Bacula Systems will want some very nominal financial compensation for doing so. You might also want to think about another idea, which is: perhaps Bacula Systems would be willing to provide binaries for a number of different platforms such as RedHat/CentOS where Bacula versions tend to lag seriously behind the development code. I would appreciate your opinions on these, and if you wish to express them "publicly" please send them to the bacula-devel list (and bacula-users list). If you wish to express them privately, simply address an email just to me. Please don't hesitate to indicate what sort of price you might be willing to pay for one or both of these services. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
