[hobbit] Any idea on a 4.3.0 third beta (or rc?) timeframe?

[TJ Yang]

I think the main (and only) xymon developer got wear out over the
years, last time I heard from the list from people seeing him far away
in same office of his existence status. Nothing bad happened to him,
"he need a break" is a reasonable statement.

So lets let him take a break. Otherwise someone need to read through
the source code tree and generate function architecture diagram in his
head and understand/test the patches from community with confidence it
won't make it worse. In fact should be more than one person need to
stand up and commit to become hobbit developers. So we won't have
Single point of failure in our Xymon development model.

Currently, there is no problem actually, no patches committed, no
roadmaps and that is all.  it still work and far better than other
free and commercial system monitoring solution.

I see many users stand up to support other new comers. this will take
off a lots of burden used provided by Henrik.

So the real question should be, "how many experienced users willing to
become developers ?"
We all know this a job that without pay, using your personal free time ... etc.


tj

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tom Georgoulias
<tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote:
> On 06/21/2010 04:25 PM, Cleaver, Japheth wrote:
>>
>> I know a lot of people seem to be using checked out svn versions, but
>> it would be nice if we could get another tarball release as well,
>> consider that the last one was quite a while ago.
>>
>> I've noticed that the demo/prod site at http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/
>> already self-identifies as Xymon 4.3.0-1.3; I'm a little curious what
>> the larger changes from 4.3.0-beta2 have been...
>
> I've been wondering about this, and about the overall state of xymon
> development in general.  Honestly, it looks pretty bleak to me.  I can't
> shake my concerns that it will become an orphaned project, even with the
> very active user community rallying around it.  Xymon is a solid, mature
> product and has served us all well for years, but the snmp support and some
> sprucing up of the web UI would make a world of difference to me and I'm
> sure to other users as well.  I'd feel a lot better if I had a more clear
> vision on where the project is going.
>
> Tom
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T.J. Yang