Hi Kern!!!!
I didn't see your email!!!. How could it be!. I'm so sorry for it!!. I'm
really busy these days..... I answer below, between the lines in bold
blue for instance, for a more clear and clean understanding of my
answers :)
El 2022-03-24 17:55, Kern Sibbald escribió:
> 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.
>
> IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT CONSIDER YOU A MENTOR!!. YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF
> BACULA KERN!!. YOU REALLY SUCCEEDED A LOT YES :) :)
>
> Thanks for using Bacula and for your email.
>
> IT IS THE LESS I CAN DO AND KNOWING IS YOU BIRTHDAY!!
>
> 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.
>
> INCREDIBLE... REALLY THE PROBLEMS WITH BAREOS... IT'S A PITTY.....
>
> I SEE... I NORMALLY OFFER THE CODE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING AND WITH BSD
> LICENSE... I DON'T MIND PEOPLE TO USE MY CODE IF IT HELPS IMPROVING
> SOMETHING... FOR ME IT'S ALL FINE!!
>
> 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'M WORKING ON :) :) AND CONVINCING MY BOSS TO GIVE DEVEL HOURS :) :)
>
> 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.
>
> THE ONE PLEASED WITH YOUR ANSWER IS ME KERN. IT'S A GREAT HONOR FOR ME... YOU
> TO HAVE ANSWERED TO MY EMAIL :) :) REALLY....
>
> 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.
>
> SAME FOR YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR SUCH A SUCCESSS CAREER!!!. I WISH I
> WOULD HAD THE SAME SUCCESS AS THE HALF OF YOU :) :)
>
> Kind regards,
>
> BEST REGARDS :) :)
> Kern
> (Currently in Puerto Rico until May then back to Barcelona).
> I'M FROM BILBAO!!! SLIGHTLY FAR FROM HERE ! :)
>
> 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 :)
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