[Box Backup] How to contribute to the project and two questions

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Jose,

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Jose Luis Rodriguez Garcia wrote:

> I would like to contribute in me free time to the boxbackup project.

That's excellent, thanks!

> What do you sugest for me to contribute to project: fix bus, new 
> funcionalities?. I can dedicate little time: 4-6 hours per week.

You could have a look at the bug tracker on our wiki as a way to get 
into the project. If you don't like the look of any of them, there are 
three major projects in progress:

* Support for volume shadow copies (VSS) on Windows
* Support for snapshot backups (in progress)
* Support for backing up to Amazon S3

> 1- It seems that the mailing lists have been lost. Is it possible to
> access a archive of the mailing list? If it isn't possible, is planned
> to restore this archive?

The mailing lists themselves are not lost, but the archives seem to have 
been mislaid somehow. I'm not involved in managing them, perhaps Alaric or 
James can help you?

> 2- Does the trunk version of repository belong to the 11rc version, or to
> the future 12 version?

There's no specific distinction between the two at the moment. Trunk has 
some features which are not backported to the latest 0.11 rc, and which 
may or may not (probably not) make it into 0.11 final, such as using QDBM 
for renamed file tracking, and full reference storage (not just reference 
counts).

Cheers, Chris.
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