Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote at about 16:03:44 +0100 on Monday, December 29, 
2008:
 > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > 
 > > I would be *very* interested in hearing your (informal) roadmap of
 > > where you would like to take BackupPC (and where you wouldn't).
 > >
 > > As I have mentioned before, there is an almost endless amount of
 > > extensions that could be added ranging from very modest tweaks to
 > > whole new directions that would fundamentally transform BackupPC. It
 > > would be good to hear your views and to have an active discussion
 > > among users about what is the right balance of extensions and new
 > > functionality.
 > 
 > Maybe the mailinglist for development discussions might be of interest  
 > to you? See https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-devel

I have been subscribed there for the past month or so and have seen
very little traffic. Also, if we are talking about desired
functionality and extensions at a high level, then it might be more
interesting to include the broader user base to get their input. I
would agree that detailed code-level roadmapping would be better
discussed in the devel group.

 > 
 > > Well, I think you have answered your own question in part. FUSE is and
 > > has been standard on current kernels for probably 2 years now. So, any
 > > recent distro will certainly have it included and I imagine by the
 > > time 4.x is released that even "older" distros like CentOS and RHEL
 > > will have it ;)
 > 
 > Enterprise distributions are usually not too keen on adding new  
 > functionality to a release. I'm not sure if for instance Red Hat is  
 > planning on adding FUSE support to RHEL 4.
 > 

I was making a joke (see the ;) ) that by the time 4.x is released
that all the then current and supported versions of CentOS and RHEL
will all be including kernels that support fuse.

Plus, as you yourself note, 3rd party repos often step in to fill the
void and backport such functionality. 

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