On Sunday 27 September 2009 19:00:38 Bill Merriam wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Recently several email design threads have pointed out an important
> > deficiency in the Bacula project that I would like to discuss. We (I) I
> > have already designed (mostly in my head) a good number of future
> > projects -- including how to support portable clients better, deleting
> > volume on purge, clients initiating backups, ... Often these are put
> > down in sketchy notes and shared with the programmer who wants to do the
> > work (mostly Eric). Generally the solutions designed are far more
> > general and complete and already encompass much of what is being
> > discussed via email. The problem is that this process is not well
> > defined and is not implemented in a way that a number of users can
> > participate or even see what those proposed designs are.
> >
> > It seems to me that we need a more public way to share Bacula design
> > proposal. Launchpad has a nice way of doing that (I forgot exactly what
> > they call it), but I have recently moved off of Launchpad because as a
> > project manager, I was unable to properly structure the project (it seems
> > that only the Launchpad programmers can do that), in addition, I found
> > launchpad very difficult to navigate.
> >
> > What we need is either a place where I can publish approved designs
> > (probably the web site) or possibly a special design wiki. At the
> > moment, it is not clear to me that a wiki would work well -- the biggest
> > problem is that many users don't fully appreciate the Bacula philosophy
> > and how Bacula works, which means that it is easy to go off on a tangent.
> > This is not a criticism of anyone, but is meant to point out that
> > designing new features for Bacula is very non-trivial and requires a
> > *lot* of work and thought before any implementation begins.
> >
> > I suppose that the first step is for me to write up (or gather up what is
> > already written) a few of the designs for ideas that are being discussed
> > on the email lists so that you can see the direction I currently favor
> > ...
> >
> > Does anyone have any comments or ideas on this?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Kern
> >
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> Kern,
>
> OpenSuSE uses a feature tracking system they call openFATE. You can
> look at it here:
>
> https://features.opensuse.org/
>
> I don't know if this is what you are looking for.
>
> The comments to this wiki page give information about licensing.
> http://news.opensuse.org/2009/01/16/opensuse-project-opens-feature-tracking
>-with-openfate/ It appears they are encouraging other projects to use it.
>
> The openFATE source code is here:
> https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/infrastructure/openfate/
> The database backend source code is here:
> https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/sxkeeper/trunk/sxkeeper/
Thanks to everyone for their ideas on this. For the moment, as you probably
know, we have decided to use WordPress because it is easily enabled on Source
Forge. So we have a sort of blog where the developers can post ideas and
users can make comments. :-)
Best regards,
Kern
>
> Bill
>
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