[Bucardo-general] Newbie Questions

[David E. Wheeler]

On Sep 25, 2012, at 7:59 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at endpoint.com> wrote:

>> That’s better than nothing. I assume that the reload either finishes 
>> those syncs before restarting or fires them up again after restarting, yes?
> 
> It kills them all, then restarts them. Hmmmm...technically, I think it only 
> restarts and kicks those that normally get kicked on startup, but not 
> any that happen to have been running when the reload comes in. That's probably 
> a minor bug.

Yeah, that doesn't sound right.

>>> You can use Bucardo's preferred terms "source" and "target". We just keep 
>>> master and slave around for backwards compatibility. :)
>> 
>> “Multi-source replication.” Not sure about that term. Maybe…
> 
> Suggestions welcome. :) I've found source and target to be the shortest 
> and most intuitive so far.

It’s good enough for me.

>> 8.1 seems more than reasonable, frankly.
> 
> You'd be surprised at how often we get asked about old versions. So I'd 
> like to have it documented in stone somewhere. I am curious as to just how 
> far back we can go with targets only.

Okay. We’re deploying to 9.2, so I’m not gonna worry about it. :-)

>> Please let me know when you've added some context to these items. I can 
>> try to take a look at some of them this week and next.
> 
> Okay. Some should be obvious from the mailing list threads.

Well, there seems to be no search of the archives:

  https://mail.endcrypt.com/pipermail/bucardo-general/

So it would be a bit tricky for me to find the context. :-(

Hrm, I could try Google, though.

>> Anything would be good; do you prefer it be somewhere else? 
>> The TODO list is useful, but lacks necessary context, IMO.
>> 
>> Oh, you have a Bugzilla, I see.
>> 
>>   http://bucardo.org/bugzilla/
>> 
>> Should we just use that?
> 
> I'm truly ambivalent. If you think github or something else would be 
> better for milestones, have at it. Also (and this goes for anyone), 
> let me know if you need a wiki or bugzilla account with privs.

Well, it's something you would have to mess with. GitHub issues will work well if you plan to use GitHub as the upstream hosting for the project. Which you currently do not.

Best,

David