Re: [Duplicity-talk] How to contribute a new backend

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.02.2012 16:07, Ken Bass wrote:
> No comments at all on my message (below) of a week ago?

sorry

> 
> I see all this talk about box.net which from what I can tell re-branded 
> themselves to box.com and now focus on business customers only. Any box.net 
> stuff appears to be strictly grandfathered accounts, not to mentioned their 
> non-standard webdav implementation. 

they currently give away free lifetime 50GB accounts (with some limits of 
course), can't see no business attitude there

>Giganews Usenet service recently provided a new Webdav dump truck service and 
>that doesn't work with duplicity either. box.com was not reliable with webdavs 
>and they told me they do not support it. All those issues precipitated the 
>reason I went down the route of creating a new backend for a different service.

heard similar, but wanna try for myself. and if there is a one line patch 
necessary, i am willing to take the "effort".

..ede/duply.net

> 
> On 2/24/2012 1:39 PM, Ken Bass wrote:
>> Can someone provide me a few details on how I would contribute a new backend.
>>
>> I've been using it for a few months now (however I have experienced some odd 
>> issues which I think is duplicity related and not specifically related to 
>> the backend).
>>
>> 1) Is there any  interest? The service is at www.idrive.com and called 
>> IDrive. There is a 5GB free version which can be used to test things out. I 
>> am now using the 150GB @ $49.50/year version.
>> The reason I used this service over others is that they provide a documented 
>> API unlike many other services.
>>
>> 2) I have no affiliation, though there is a referral program I was thinking 
>> about doing. If I provided whatever unique link that gives me referral 
>> credit in the documentation would that be okay? Of course anyone would be 
>> free to signup
>> however they wish.
>>
>> 3) I know you use bazaar but am not sure the proper workflow. Do I register 
>> my own branch via the launchpad site and use that?
>>
>> 4) Are there many people on this list that would test new features like this?
>>
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