Johannes Meixner

@rear/contributors because we already had some discussions about ReaR 3.0: What about releasing what is currently labeled ReaR 2.8 as ReaR 3.0?

As usual I will make the release notes for ReaR 2.8 i.e. a new https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/blob/master/documentation/release-notes-2-8.md from which a new https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/rear-release-notes.txt will be made as described at ``` Convert the release...

@rear/contributors should I change this issue into "Preparations towards release of ReaR 2.8" or should I create a new separated issue for this?

Via https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/commit/24251c3f092fd2ceca9082def5a052a72326eaad I committed a new release-notes-2-8.md from scratch https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/blob/master/documentation/release-notes-2-8.md to avoid in particular licensing issues with https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/3302 I carefully omitted any text of the currently still open (i.e. not...

It went faster than expected to fill up the "Details" section, see the current https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/blob/master/documentation/release-notes-2-8.md The "Details" entries are basically "copy&paste" excerpts of what the command ``` git log --format="%ae...

@rear/contributors please have a look at https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/blob/master/documentation/release-notes-2-8.md if this or that needs to be improved or if you spot typos. In my personal opinion I don't mind when there are...

The currently remaining open pull requests for ReaR 2.8 are https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3171 (blocker) "Make OS detection from /etc/os-release more robust" https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3345 (blocker) "Make sourcing DUPLY_PROFILE reasonably secure" https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3344 (bug) "Minor os-detection...

With https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3345 https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3171 https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/3344 merged, there are currently no open issues or pull requests for ReaR 2.8 - except this one here. @rear/contributors please test (as time permits) current GitHub...

Added latest git commit messages to release-notes-2-8.md https://github.com/rear/rear.github.com/commit/788f0bd54b80ca36c12c69bce28871c7c3d682d7

Tested SLES 15 SP 6 with default btrfs structure (with and without BACKUP_PROG_INCLUDE), see https://github.com/rear/rear/wiki/Test-Matrix-ReaR-2.8#sles-15-sp-6-with-default-btrfs-structure