[hobbit] Current development plans

[FIGARO Nicolas]

Hi, 

Just some ideas : 
- the portability is very important (so the future hobbit client should be as simple as possible and should compile on most platforms). I think developping the hobbit client is the most urgent. (so the hobbit project won't depend anymore on bigbrother client and BTF licence)
- crypting the infos can be quite useful (but perhaps it can be good to allow crypted and unencrypted datas to be sent). 
- snmp integration can take a lot of time (I tried to modified mrtg cfgmaker script to integrate brocade switches and decided afterwards to create a new one). 
- offer the ability to generate pages using another language (I can work on the french translation if you need). Not urgent at all (but french people like softwares that can speak french, I guess danish people like software that can speak danish). 
- I was very interested with the bb-central extension provided with bigbrother (ability to collect infos through an ssh connection). Not urgent at all two 

I hope the temp will rise enough so you won't stay at home to write hobbit client this summer :) :) 

Nicolas Figaro 

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Envoyé : jeudi 9 juin 2005 07:42
À : hobbit at hswn.dk
Objet : [hobbit] Current development plans


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