[Xymon] Is this thing on?

[Bruno Manzoni]

Hi Xymon Lovers,

Glad to see everyone still loves Xymon and ready to give more!
*I've summarized this discussion *"Is this thing on"

*To move forward:**
**Non-technical needs:*

*  Mailing list migration*, not possible to sign up for the Xymon user 
group anymore (*URGENT PROBLEM*)
     Share community developed plugins/monitors (it seems some people 
may have a lot to share)
     Several resources available if needed (developer, server web, demo 
platform, infra, maybe also money)
     More than one enthusiastic developer (probably not only devs...)
     Need a caretaker: updates to fix bugs, adapt to new OS versions, 
Terabithia RPM
     Henrik won't be able to contribute much (but a little might also be 
good!)
     A clearer organization
     Wikibook information udpate

*Technical needs*
*New features that we would like to have or that were planned*

     Reports, communication encrypted, or at least authenticated, Direct 
SSL support and/or message signing (*MOST REQUESTED*)
     Introductory document for developers
     IPv6 (some of which is working in the 4.4 alpha branch)
     Abstraction of remaining formatting to simple CSS to allow for 
skinning and dashboarding
     JSON endpoint version of xymondx{log|board}
     REST-based C shim .cgi, both of which could help folks integrating 
Xymon with other monitoring systems out there
     Forklifting of the many performance enhancements and tweaks from 
the Terabithia RPMs into the source tarball.
     Move the source to Github in the hopes of creating an easier onramp 
for patch submissions via PRs, bug reports
     Rocky package.
     Missing in the base, arp, netstat, ifconfig and route are supposed 
to be replaced by "ip" and "ss" commands.
     Moving away from C as the primary language. Python would probably 
have a lot more potential developers (*MAIN SUGGESTION FROM HENRIK*)
     Consider replacing the proprietary Xymon protocol with a REST API 
instead - then you could use standard http modules to talk to Xymon. 
Look at what each tool does, and reimplement it in a more modern way.
     Fix all string management warnings reported by gcc.



*1. Please, let us know if all your info is in these lists *or *if you 
have other ideas *and *what do you think of all this now that you have 
an summary ?*


Also, I understood that Henrik and Japhet couldn't be much more 
involved, but they are invaluable people for this project.
*@Henrik and Japhet: *
- Do we need a new Prophet ?
- So if yes, if someone/people would like to continue the project, what 
would you like to see from him/them: It would be great to have someone 
who would have your blessing

Bruno
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