I’m glad to see that, and want to to give the project a better shape for external eyes.
As explained in a mail sent to the users mailing-list, this could be done in two ways: a logo and a website design.

The project is looking for volunteers for a new website design (could be a Wordpress skin) and for a logo. We’ve been thinking at choosing a squirel or a beaver as a mascot for the project.

Submit your proposals either to the users list or to me directly.

The release notes are available here.

Here is the announcement made on the user mailing list.

I’ve also uploaded a new Debian package to sid, in order to provide 0.7.8 for the unstable distribution of Debian. Reports are welcome (but bug-related ones are prefered, if possible in the official Bugzilla rather than in the Debian BTS).

But actually, If you ask me, I’m not. Instead of writing long lines of haiku to apologize for being so late at releasing, here is an illustrated reason why it was so loooong.

All of the patches submited - that made sense - were applied, thanks to all the reporters for their help, by the way.

So, fear a new release soon…

Check it out.

Expect the Debian package to be uploaded soon in sid.

The good news is that there is only one 0.8-blocker left in the bug database.

I’ve closed all the others, including a security issue regarding the way BM handles the MySQL client password and some fixes about the way encryption is performed.

I hope I can close that last bug soon, and at last, release 0.8…

Stay tuned.

I joined the Debian Perl Group recently in order to put my Perl packages into the hand of the team, and that reminded me how alioth is a powerful tool when you’re about handling a debian package with others.

As I receive quite often some po/po-debconf updates for the package backup-manager, I decided to exhume the pkg-backup-mngr project, in order to handle the source with subversion, and to let the translators commit their changes. I now use enormously svn-buildpackage and I feel pretty happy about that.

I even think about opening an alioth project for every single package I maintain (and of course, which cannot be handled by an already existing team).

Update

I apprently forgot the last paragraph of that post in my mind, and the mail Philipp Kern sent me made me aware of that (pointing to Raphaël Hertzog announcement about collab-maint). Indeed, Philipp, I wanted to conclude my post with something about collab-maint, I guess it’s done now. Thanks!

I’d like very much to manage to release Backup Manager 0.8 before Debian enter its frozen-prerelase phase; providing a mature version of BM within “etch” would rock.

This package closes about ten bugs and provide the last available “development” release of Backup Manager. I hope this package will please those who will “apt-get” into it.

I now plan to fix as much upstream bugs as I can, and moreover, work on the inclusion of rdiff-backup.