Indeed, we had 18 months. But we didn't know that we had 18 months, because old versions were historically still available, so readying ourselves for Bareos upgrades hasn't featured as the most important thing to do yet. We made a temporary plan by pulling old packages out of our backups for the time being. The overall strategy is still extremely inconvenient, but I think it is a temporary inconvenience. I think if we understand the versioning cadence, we will be ok in future. The way we understand it, somewhere close to the end of the year, a new version will become 'current' (not sure if it is a coincidence that the version number matches the last two digits of that current year). Around the same time, a new version will appear in 'next', giving consumers around 11 months to become ready to switch to it. What would have been great, is for at least a short period of time, there was also a 'previous' repo at downloads.bareos.org. Even a month or 3 would suffice. Right now, there is now way to cleanly and confidently move servers from one version to another. But I totally understand if your reasoning is that we need to pay if we need that functionality, since you don't recommend using the community version in production. Maybe I should reach out to sales about bulk licensing?
On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 5:18:41 PM UTC+2 Andreas Rogge wrote: > Am 29.05.23 um 15:08 schrieb Willem Basson: > > We have some custom integrations between our custom code and the > > Director, and it is not yet compatible with versions newer than 20. > > Since Bareos 21.0.0 was released in December 2021 (almost 18 months > ago), you had the chance to adapt your integrations, but didn't. > How long do you think you'll need to upgrade? Maybe I can convince sales > to provide a time-limited (but otherwise free) access to the > subscription repository for you. > > Best Regards, > Andreas > -- > Andreas Rogge andrea...@bareos.com > Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221-630693-86 <+49%20221%2063069386> > http://www.bareos.com > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 > Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Stephan Dühr, Jörg Steffens, Philipp Storz > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/b0fd6844-fd27-411e-b6c6-ddf4bbee3badn%40googlegroups.com.
