Re: An special day for honoring someone who has done a extremely nice job in the open source world

Hi Kern!!!! 

I didn't see your email!!!. How could it be!. I'm so sorry for it!!. I'm
really busy these days..... I answer below, between the lines in bold
blue for instance, for a more clear and clean understanding of my
answers :)

El 2022-03-24 17:55, Kern Sibbald escribió:

> Hello Egoitz,
> 
> Thanks for your very kind email with birthday wishes.  I am really honored that you call me a mentor, thanks.  I have always done my best to produce a high end backup product (though it is a bit complicated) that is robust and reliable with all the features needed by the community as well as small enterprises.  Though it is sometimes hard, I feel that we succeeded in creating a friendly and helpful email list. 
> 
> IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO NOT CONSIDER YOU A MENTOR!!. YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF BACULA KERN!!. YOU REALLY SUCCEEDED A LOT YES :) :)
> 
> Thanks for using Bacula and for your email. 
> 
> IT IS THE LESS I CAN DO AND KNOWING IS YOU BIRTHDAY!!
> 
> Concerning your plugin:  in general we accept all contributions that are useful, follow our current design conditions (in the Developers document) and for which we have a signed CAA (copyright assignment agreement).  This agreement allows Bacula Systems to use the code, but even more important for me, it protect all Bacula users from someone introducing code then claiming we are using his proprietary code (this is what Bareos attempted to do to Bacula). I can remember only on case where we we not able to use the code, and that was code developed by UKFast (ISP) and released by the developer without permission.  We we never able to get permission to use the code from UKFast.  This code implemented quotas.  Instead of integrating unauthorized code, we wrote our own simpler and more efficie
 nt quota code.  Note, Bareos integrated the unauthorized code, so perhaps one day their users may be exposed to license problems. 
> 
> INCREDIBLE... REALLY THE PROBLEMS WITH BAREOS... IT'S A PITTY..... 
> 
> I SEE... I NORMALLY OFFER THE CODE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING AND WITH BSD LICENSE... I DON'T MIND PEOPLE TO USE MY CODE IF IT HELPS IMPROVING SOMETHING... FOR ME IT'S ALL FINE!! 
> 
> If you finish your code, and you are willing to submit a CAA, then I recommend that you submit it to Bacula (Now that I am retired, Eric decides exactly what is integrated and what is not).   In my opinion, it would be a very nice addition. 
> 
> I'M WORKING ON :) :) AND CONVINCING MY BOSS TO GIVE DEVEL HOURS :) :)
> 
> I am very pleased that Bacula Systems has agreed to look after maintaining the community version and continue adding the Bacula Systems new features.  This means that Bacula will be getting better and better and continue to adapt to the ever changing IT backup/restore needs. 
> 
> THE ONE PLEASED WITH YOUR ANSWER IS ME KERN. IT'S A GREAT HONOR FOR ME... YOU TO HAVE ANSWERED TO MY EMAIL :) :) REALLY.... 
> 
> Thank you very much for recognizing my contributions, and above all thank you for using Bacula and developing code for it.  I wish you all the best in the future. 
> 
> SAME FOR YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR SUCH A SUCCESSS CAREER!!!. I WISH I WOULD HAD THE SAME SUCCESS AS THE HALF OF YOU :) :)
> 
> Kind regards, 
> 
> BEST REGARDS :) :)
> Kern
> (Currently in Puerto Rico until May then back to Barcelona).
> I'M FROM BILBAO!!! SLIGHTLY FAR FROM HERE ! :) 
> 
> On 3/21/2022 4:40 AM, [email protected] wrote: 
> 
>> Good morning people :)
>> 
>> Today is a special day. Is the birthday of someone now deservedly retired. This person is Kern Sibbald. I had the opportunity of knowing about his birthday, through one nice person in this mailing lists. Kern is much more than a nice codder, who has write a extremely important tool which is the base of most of our backups. At least for me is one of my mentors, one of the persons from which I would like to learn because it has done a nice job with Bacula. For all these reasons, I wanted to say "thank you so much Kern and have an extremely happy birthday!!".
>> 
>> I wanted too, for making the most of this lines, to ask a little gift to Kern :) :). I'm working as some of you know, in building a Bacula pluggin for creating an open source delta encoding plugin for the fd. It would be hugely nice :) :) (as someone told me too in this list) if official Delta plugin of Bacula, could be distributed with the Community source of Bacula. I'll go on writting my own plugin anyway, because I wanted to learn how it works and for being able to customize some of the backups I do here, but it would be really nice to have the Delta plugin as part of the Community edition of this nice piece of software. I had to try :) :) .
>> 
>> Anyway and independently of what Kern decides about the gift I have asked :) :) (I had to try it... mainly after someone encouraged asking it :) :) ), I wanted to emphasize my recognition about Kern's person, due to all his contributions to the open source world. These ideas, anyway, would never change in my mind about you.
>> 
>> So for ending this email, I think there are not more appropiate words for being remarked as the following ones : "Kern, Thank you so much".
>> 
>> Cheers :)

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