Opening a new Subject to keep this discussion somewhat readable. Some 
replies to / and adding to the list of Mauros points:

- have me join and participate in git management activities: why not? I 
have been intrigued by my ignorance on GIT - learning is always a 
challenge if there are people ready to reply to questions

- looking into divergence between V4 and V3x
I had also arrived at this kind of topic, but from a slightly different 
side: draft a short evaluation paper on the state of V3x and V4 - to 
have a solid base for what we are talking about and for deciding actions 
and priorities - without that, email discussion might become dispersive. 
I will pick this up. Immediate conclusion: writing a clever perl 
programme is one thing - but not a all the same as understanding a 
clever perl programme written by somebody else and having a different 
background. Please be patient.

- first naive question: what does that mean "to open "issues" on 
backuppc/backuppc"? one of my black holes.

Something perfectly different: how about checking how well different 
domains of competence are covered by the people already on board - and 
of themes where we are perfectly blank? We talked about programming 
skills and software management. What other domains are essential? 
checking, but also have a list of people whose arm to twist if a problem 
pops up on some particular issue. How about
- web front (or is it back?)-end for the user interface
- interface with apache and co
- platform (OS) specific issues - is cygwin part of this topic?
- components (ssh, rysnc, samba ... )
- what more?
(a weak ago I would have considered asking such questions as esoteric)

Wiki is another topic (and certainly not first priority). I had a look 
at the BackupPC wiki at sourceforge. At present it looks like a 
well-done repository for a summary description on BackupPC. As we 
explore issues on BackupPC, maybe notes could be collected on topics 
that would be nice to appear in the wiki. Could the wiki play a role in 
documenting plans/actions? Is there someone who feels motivated to drive 
action on the wiki? are there choices to be made?  I have experience 
with wikimedia technology, but the wiki at sourceforge looks different, 
and I have not seen links to "help". Is the wiki at github yet different?

I do not suggest to distract from the principle issue: stabilize 
BackupPC and establish a solid base for continuing - but I think this 
kind of tour-d'horizon to get a general idea of the outstanding issues 
is a good thing to do in the present situation; "for future action" is 
always a valid reply.

Juergen

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