[hobbit] Current development plans

[Rich Smrcina]

Henrik,

Whatever break you take over the summer is certainly well deserved. 
You've provided the world with a wonderful tool and this reader is very 
appreciative of all of your hard work.

I must concur that a Hobbit client should take precedence over other 
development activities (except perhaps bug fixes).

I tend to like the SNMP idea myself.  Building a client around that 
arthitecture could solve a large number of problems, perhaps the biggest 
is support of a diverse number of operating systems.

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> It seems version 4.0 has reached some stability - there are still a few
> odd bug reports, but nothing that looks like major problems. So I
> thought it would be worthwhile to let you know what my plans are.
> 
> First, I'm currently pretty busy with other stuff so questions raised
> here are not being answered as quickly as I'd like to. Rest assured that
> they have not been forgotten, and I will look at all of the reports and
> questions - but probably not very much for the next week or so.
> 
> 
> I'm currently working on a 4.0.5 release which will be a performance-
> improvement release. The current Hobbit code has a flaw in the alert-
> module, that makes it use much more CPU time than it should - especially
> if you have a large number of statuses that are in an alert state, but
> which do not have any recipients defined in hobbit-alerts.cfg. This will
> be released sometime in June.
> 
> But summer is upon us, and that means less development activity - so
> things will slow down as the temperature rises. So don't expect a lot
> of activity during the summer.
> 
> 
> When I pick up speed again, I haven't yet decided if I should go for
> the alert/acknowledge improvements that I've talked about for some 
> time, or if I should tackle the issue of a Hobbit client and get that
> into a reasonable shape for the more common platforms. I have some ideas
> for a rather different client architecture than the current one, and
> the client is also *the* missing piece of the whole Hobbit puzzle - so
> I could be tempted to get that done. I'd like some feedback on what
> you find most urgent.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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