Re: Back In Time - Second Release Candidate (1.5.4-rc2)

Hi Christian,

Thanks for reaching out to us.  I am not quite sure your suggestion for an item
to be published by the press/publicity team is suitable as-is.  As can be seen
on https://micronews.debian.org/ , our micronews items are, as the name says :)
, small.  Your suggested text size would be more suitable for
https://bits.debian.org/ .  Or---and I guess better---would be to drastically
shrink the text.  Also: please do not assume the readers know that "Back In
Time" is software for doing file backup; so please add some words to explain
that.  Do you have time to adjust your text with these hints?

Thanks, Bye,

Joost



On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 12:54:40PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello, I kindly ask if you would publish this news item to your micro news
> service.
> 
> Hello,
> As member of the upstream maintenance team of Back In Time [1] project,
> please allow me to announce the second release candidate [2] preparing for
> version 1.5.4 targeting the upcoming Debian 13 Trixie.
> 
>     https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2
> 
> Please report if you use it even if there are no new problems. Feel free to
> use our Mastodon account @[email protected] [3].
> 
> - EncFS, used for encrypted profiles, has been marked as deprecated and is
> schedule for removal in 2026 [4].
> - The Smart & Auto remove GUI has been reorganized and renamed into "Remove
> & Retention", with improvements to the user manual section [5]. Its behavior
> remains unchanged.
> - An offset minute can now be configured for hourly schedule options.
> - Some config file fields have been moved to a newly introduced state file.
> - License and copyright information is now provided in machine-readable SPDX
> format, following the REUSE standard [6].
> 
> See CHANGELOG [7] for more details.
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Buhtz
> 
> [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime>
> [2] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.5.4-rc2>
> [3] -- <https://fosstodon.org/@backintime>
> [4] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1734>
> [5] -- <https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/remove_retention.html>
> [6] -- <https://reuse.software/>
> [7] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/CHANGES>
>