Mailman 3 May 2025 - Bit-dev

Quick update on the project
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp May 16, 2025

May 16, 2025

Hello Folks, I just wanted to share a quick update on what's been happening in the project lately. I'm not sure if anyone is monitoring the issues and pull requests (PR), but there has been a lot activity over the past few weeks. Most of the PRs where merged within less then one week. Usually, we have a rule to keep a PR open for at least one week to cool done. In my experience, this greatly improves their overall quality. However, I shorten this period for some of the PRs because they where blocking others, and I tried to avoid merge conflicts. The ongoing larger task, is improving the man page. But before refining the text, I focused on simplifying and making the command line interface (CLI) more consistent. I reduced the number of commands from 17 to 10. I also adjusted some argument/flags. Renamed or removed commands and flags are still there for backwards compatibility. They are hidden in --help output but will trigger a deprecation warning when used. The plan is to fully remove them in two or three years, after the release of Debian 14. That's all for now. Regards, Christian Buhtz

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Feedback about new commands "list" and "last"
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp May 11, 2025

May 11, 2025

Hello Folks, I'll would like to have some feedback about an ongoing modification of the command-line interface of BIT. Please let me know what you think. Can you think of better naming for commands and switches. Maybe something totally different? There are 4 commands I do replace with 2 commands "list" and "last" as follows: - backintime snapshots-list: backintime list - backintime snapshots-list-path: backintime list --path - backintime last-snapshot: backintime last - backintime last-snapshot-path: backintime last --path This is still implemented in an pending PR #2135. I also do have an alternative in mind, which would reduce everything to only one command, with more switches. - backintime snapshots-list: backintime show - backintime snapshots-list-path: backintime show --path - backintime last-snapshot: backintime show --last - backintime last-snapshot-path: backintime show --last --path Regards, Christian Buhtz The Issue: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/2130 The PR: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/pull/2135

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benchmark-cipher - Deprecated and remove
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp May 4, 2025

May 4, 2025

Hello Folks, I would like to put this topic on the table. BIT has a feature available via command "benchmark-cipher". I tend to deprecate and remove it. See details in the issue. <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/2120> Someone else has good reason against this plan? Regards, Christian Buhtz

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Should Back In Time inhibit suspend or idle mode by default?
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp May 1, 2025

May 1, 2025

Hello, I stumbled across a bunch of old issues related to power management, DBus and inhibiting suspend mode. I was doing some refactoring in this area. So the question [1] comes up, I was also asking at Mastodon [2]: "Should Back In Time inhibit suspend or idle mode by default?" Some opinions or Vetos about it? Thank you and best wishes, Christian [1] -- <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/2108> [2] -- <https://fosstodon.org/@backintime/114415822192466615>

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Please take a look at this new logo draft
by c.buhtz＠posteo.jp May 1, 2025

May 1, 2025

Hello, we have someone offer a drafts about a new logo. Please be kind to him and don't drive him away. :D https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1961 Regards, Christian

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