Re: Application API

Random thoughts from a former developer and Zmanda employee, and OSS
enthusiast at Mozilla.

As you've said, forking is cheap and easy and easily reversed.  Sometimes
the mere use of the term stirs the idle to action, but it seems that has
not happened in this case.  So I'd say, fork away.  `amanda-backup` might
be a good github org name.  While I don't have time to hack on Amanda
anymore, I'd be willing to help with mechanics and administration if it's
useful.

If that fork is successful, we'd need to do some administrative organizing
to ensure that we speak with one voice and that a release can be considered
to come from "Amanda Developers" and not one person's whim.  And probably
to set expectations for maintenance of the project.  That will end up being
quite a bit of work, so it might be a good idea to get some public
commitment from several people before pulling the cord.

Dustin

P.S. Having worked with JLM for a while, I can say he's a very private
person and may not want to share whatever personal circumstances have
caused him to stop contributing.  Not having his input is a loss for the
project, but I doubt he's being silenced.