Requirements to become a Supported Platform
As mentioned above, in order to become a fully supported platform, it
must support POSIX Unix system calls. In addition, the following
requirements must be met:
- The principal developer (currently Kern) must have
non-root ssh access to a test machine running the platform.
- The ideal requirements and minimum requirements
for this machine are given below.
- There must be a defined platform champion who is normally
a system administrator for the machine that is available. This
person need not be a developer/programmer but must be familiar
with system administration of the platform.
- There must be at least one person designated who will
run regression tests prior to each release. Releases occur
approximately once every 6 months, but can be more frequent.
It takes at most a day's effort to setup the regression scripts
in the beginning, and after that, they can either be run daily
or on demand before a release. Running the regression scripts
involves only one or two command line commands and is fully
automated.
- Ideally there are one or more persons who will package
each Bacula release.
- Ideally there are one or more developers who can respond to
and fix platform specific bugs.
Ideal requirements for a test machine:
- The principal developer will have non-root ssh access to
the test machine at all times.
- The pricipal developer will have a root password.
- The test machine will provide approximately 200 MB of
disk space for continual use.
- The test machine will have approximately 500 MB of free
disk space for temporary use.
- The test machine will run the most common version of the OS.
- The test machine will have an autochanger of DDS-4 technology
or later having two or more tapes.
- The test machine will have MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database
access for account "bacula" available.
- The test machine will have sftp access.
- The test machine will provide an smtp server.
Minimum requirements for a test machine:
- The principal developer will have non-root ssh access to
the test machine when requested approximately once a month.
- The pricipal developer not have root access.
- The test machine will provide approximately 80 MB of
disk space for continual use.
- The test machine will have approximately 300 MB of free
disk space for temporary use.
- The test machine will run the the OS.
- The test machine will have a tape drive of DDS-4 technology
or later that can be scheduled for access.
- The test machine will not have MySQL and/or PostgreSQL database
access.
- The test machine will have no sftp access.
- The test machine will provide no email access.
Bare bones test machine requirements:
- The test machine is available only to a designated
test person (your own machine).
- The designated test person runs the regession
tests on demand.
- The test machine has a tape drive available.
Kern Sibbald
2013-08-18