[hobbit] Current development plans

[Michael Nemeth]

No in my experience using SNMP CAUSES a large number or problems:  
slow!  bugs(memory leaks)  and security. 
And IM not sure how portable it really is !

Rich Smrcina wrote:

> 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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>

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