Thanks, Jean-Louis.
On 5/22/07, Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote:
Hello,
There has been much recent discussion in amanda-hackers, and -users
about testing and support for the wide variety of platforms and
architectures on which Amanda runs, and the wide variety of
configurations in which folks use it. Amanda's ability to compile and
run on a wide variety of operating systems and platforms is one of its
key strengths, and the amanda hacker community is of course committed to
Amanda's heterogeneous support.
Several people have expressed an interest in helping to test and/or
support the environments in which they are knowledgeable. After
discussion with some other developers and Zmanda folks, We would like to
formalize this process a bit. Here's the proposal:
The community keeps a centralized list of "platform experts" for each
environment, perhaps on the Amanda wiki. Experts will be a point of
contact for questions regarding that environment, both from users and
from developers. Programming experience isn't be required, but a
healthy familiarity with the environment is important. Hopefully, we
will have enough people for each environment that this will not be a burden.
A wiki page has been set up for the community who are interested in
being "platform experts". http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Platform_Experts
Please feel free to edit the page and add yourself if you are interested.
When the time for a release comes around, the experts will build and
thoroughly test each beta release, and report any problems back to the
amanda-hackers list. The final release will be made when the experts
agree that it is ready.
Jean-Louis had sent an email earlier this morning about testing
Amada 2.5.2 patch release (snapshot tar
ball amanda-2.5.2-20070523.tar.gz is available at
http://www.zmanda.com/community-builds.php). If you
have the resources, please try the latest 2.5.2 snapshot and provide feedback.
Thanks,
Paddy
Of course, the core Amanda team will continue to support all available
architectures, as has been the case since the beginning.
What are your thoughts? Will you pitch in?
Jean-Louis
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