Dear Kern the kudos are well deserved and yes, it takes some time to understand Bacula’s concepts for people -like me- who are not used to tape libraries - and the time it takes is well deserved. I am happy with Bacula and happy that I took the time to get some understanding how to use it.
I can only say thank you for the time and effort you dedicated to develop Bacula, it is helping me a lot and I can imagine that hundreds, if not thousands or more people are relying on Bacula and are grateful for what you achieved. Puerto Rico and Barcelona, two so beautiful places I have visited, indeed I wish I would be living in one of these. All the best to you Kern and a long and healthy life and happy times, JC > On 24. Mar 2022, at 17:55, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote: > > Hello Egoitz, > > Thanks for your very kind email with birthday wishes. I am really honored > that you call me a mentor, thanks. I have always done my best to produce a > high end backup product (though it is a bit complicated) that is robust and > reliable with all the features needed by the community as well as small > enterprises. Though it is sometimes hard, I feel that we succeeded in > creating a friendly and helpful email list. > > Thanks for using Bacula and for your email. > > Concerning your plugin: in general we accept all contributions that are > useful, follow our current design conditions (in the Developers document) and > for which we have a signed CAA (copyright assignment agreement). This > agreement allows Bacula Systems to use the code, but even more important for > me, it protect all Bacula users from someone introducing code then claiming > we are using his proprietary code (this is what Bareos attempted to do to > Bacula). I can remember only on case where we we not able to use the code, > and that was code developed by UKFast (ISP) and released by the developer > without permission. We we never able to get permission to use the code from > UKFast. This code implemented quotas. Instead of integrating unauthorized > code, we wrote our own simpler and more efficient quota code. Note, Bareos > integrated the unauthorized code, so perhaps one day their users may be > exposed to license problems. > > If you finish your code, and you are willing to submit a CAA, then I > recommend that you submit it to Bacula (Now that I am retired, Eric decides > exactly what is integrated and what is not). In my opinion, it would be a > very nice addition. > > I am very pleased that Bacula Systems has agreed to look after maintaining > the community version and continue adding the Bacula Systems new features. > This means that Bacula will be getting better and better and continue to > adapt to the ever changing IT backup/restore needs. > > Thank you very much for recognizing my contributions, and above all thank you > for using Bacula and developing code for it. I wish you all the best in the > future. > > Kind regards, > Kern > (Currently in Puerto Rico until May then back to Barcelona). > > > > On 3/21/2022 4:40 AM, ego...@ramattack.net wrote: >> >> Good morning people :) >> >> >> Today is a special day. Is the birthday of someone now deservedly retired. >> This person is Kern Sibbald. I had the opportunity of knowing about his >> birthday, through one nice person in this mailing lists. Kern is much more >> than a nice codder, who has write a extremely important tool which is the >> base of most of our backups. At least for me is one of my mentors, one of >> the persons from which I would like to learn because it has done a nice job >> with Bacula. For all these reasons, I wanted to say "thank you so much Kern >> and have an extremely happy birthday!!". >> >> I wanted too, for making the most of this lines, to ask a little gift to >> Kern :) :). I'm working as some of you know, in building a Bacula pluggin >> for creating an open source delta encoding plugin for the fd. It would be >> hugely nice :) :) (as someone told me too in this list) if official Delta >> plugin of Bacula, could be distributed with the Community source of Bacula. >> I'll go on writting my own plugin anyway, because I wanted to learn how it >> works and for being able to customize some of the backups I do here, but it >> would be really nice to have the Delta plugin as part of the Community >> edition of this nice piece of software. I had to try :) :) . >> >> Anyway and independently of what Kern decides about the gift I have asked :) >> :) (I had to try it... mainly after someone encouraged asking it :) :) ), I >> wanted to emphasize my recognition about Kern's person, due to all his >> contributions to the open source world. These ideas, anyway, would never >> change in my mind about you. >> >> So for ending this email, I think there are not more appropiate words for >> being remarked as the following ones : "Kern, Thank you so much". >> >> >> Cheers :) >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
