I hear you - I'm not expecting "people" to serve my personal interests. But this has been such an active and helpful group, I just thought the suggestion had merit beyond my personal interest and that someone more familiar with coding would take interest.
I can't wait to be able to contribute back to this group - but I'm just now getting my feet wet and learning how all this works. As my experience and confidence grows, I certainly hope to be able to "give back" and pay it forward. I fear, however, based on your tone that I may have worn out my welcome, and if so, my apologies. I'm just trying to make good use of available resources as I orient myself to this great piece of software.
I don't think you will find many people here willing to code and
submit a patch to satisfy your personal feature requests unless they
happen to need it for themselves. The leader/maintainer of BackupPC is
reportedly focusing all his efforts on a complete rewrite. The rest of
us are here as users and volunteers.
Given that you have been asking a lot of the group, it's not
unreasonable to ask/expect you to contribute back especially when this
is your own feature requests. The code is open and very
readable. Perhaps offer to pay someone to code it for you and
contribute the code back if you lack the ability to do it yourself.
Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 14:27:21 -0500 on Friday, July 13, 2012:
> That's beyond me ("code it and submit a patch"). Is there not a repository
> or a way to submit these to those whom where "code it and submit a patch"
> doesn't frighten?
> :-)
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org> wrote:
>
> > Bryan Keadle (.net) wrote at about 10:50:46 -0500 on Monday, July 9, 2012:
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > How might one suggest such an "enhancement request" - a "trial run"
> > feature
> > > that would show *WHAT* would get backed up, but not actually backup?
> > >
> >
> > Code it and submit a patch...
> >
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