Hi
At this point we will need to have some sort of meeting around the strategy going forward. I suspect this might be a little more involved as we are all in different time zones (gmt+2 here). However my gut feel is that we need to do a couple of basic things.
1) Developers need to get into the source code and assign various modules to those with the skills to develop and support it
2) Get solid documentation done on the various modules, protocols and pieces around the project.
3) Review the road map with Henrik and decide on a hit list of features(as we have a lot of people willing to help we can probably roll a lot of the work into one release).
4) Get cracking.
Xymon is just one part of the equation for me. I see a lot of potential for Xymon in the Windows world but the BBWin client is well a very quiet project as well. I am not sure yet if we would maybe fork the code or create a new client. At this point I would suggest that maybe we look at a Java based client for xymon so we can run on a huge variety of platforms with one client. Anyway the whole client is a whole different ball game.
In my previous mails I asked to have the list of people who contribute closed by Monday next week so that we can move ahead. This does not mean it is closed forever we just need to set a cut off so we can start getting the planning done.
Hope the rest agrees with me.
Regards
Neil
-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Sjöberg [mailto:user-74c177c1220d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 02 July 2010 11:28 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead
Hi.
I just want to say that I am really glad that you people are planning to resurrect the Xymon development. My company has started considering a switch to another monitoring software because of the non-existent development, but I would really like to stay with Xymon. If I could code and had some more time to spare I would be happy to help, but I don't think I can contribute much at the moment.
Have you set up any plans regarding the future development? Are you going to follow the roadmap that Henrik posted on the list a long time ago?
Keep up the great work,
Johan
-----Original Message-----
From: TJ Yang [mailto:user-61afc885aa73@xymon.invalid]
Sent: den 2 juli 2010 08:03
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Neil Franken
<user-1689acfc5a3b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Put me up for:
1) Development
2) Documentation
3) Support
Done, you are 21st person answered the call for help.
At the moment I am busy with another project so my spare time is kinda of
eaten up. However this project will come to a close in a month more or less
and i will have much more free time to help. Like I mentioned to some of you
I am working on some new layout for the web gui and will have some templates
for you guys in a week. I will also create some documentation around using
Wireshark and the Xymon Protocol.
This will be a great howto addition to wikibook howto.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO
Thanks
Regards
Neil
From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 02 July 2010 06:06 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:16 PM, TJ Yang <user-61afc885aa73@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:57 PM, David Baldwin
<user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid> wrote:
TJ Yang wrote:
Before a new admin is chosen, I think it would be a good idea to create
a
list of the tasks and responsibilities that the volunteer(s) would be
taking
on. It doesn't have to be a complete list, but just something that
covers
the major points. If you want to be an active developer (and I hope
that
you do, as you know the code better than anyone and can help others get
up
to speed), it would be nice to know what the admin(s) should be helping
you
with.
How about this ?
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_resource_allocation
It is renamed as
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
If no objection, I will put in more effort complete the table.
tj
Good stuff to see all this activity which is very timely in ensuring
that hobbit/xymon has a viable future.
I am also keen to be involved. I've done quite a lot of custom tests
I take that as a Yes. You are tagged as Volunteer in Dev area.
mostly written in perl, devmon templates, custom graphs, etc. Good
intentions to get an installable xymon package for MacOSX that would be
good to get kicked along as part of this momentum.
David, I once created an OS X .pkg file from command line approach.
But the package was just an binary untar, no package script actions
from pre-flight,post-flight .pkg script.
I am hoping to work on this again with your help.
tj
Occasionally I've
dived into the C source and diagnosed some bugs. Haven't read the doco
enough either - keep finding hidden gems which I expect others may have
missed as well.
I've poked around a bit in the source and written a lot of checkout scripts
for web pages and other things. Unfortunately that was mostly at my last
employer, and I may not be able to introduce Xymon to my current employer.
That will severely any development I might do, but I can proofread docs for
spelling and grammer, if not for technical accuracy...
I've also been doing a bit of end used support in the mailing list.
Ralph Mitchell
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T.J. Yang