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

[Neil Franken]

Hi All

I agree with you 100% Tom. We need to find out from Henrik 
What his position regarding Xymon is at the moment. Xymon has saved me
countless
of hours when I had to trouble shoot issues and made me extremely
pro-active in 
identifying issues before they become operational messes.

I have tried Nagios, OpenNMS and Zabbix but they are a little heavy and
run into the 
analysis paralysis territory for me. The 'spirit' of xymon for me is a
light weight
easy to install and easy to use system. However I think Xymon could use
with a little 
drive and development and having Henrik try to respond to all the
request, bugs and so 
on is not feasible for one person. 

Personally I would like to see Xymon being featured when i do searches
on open source 
Monitoring tools. For example SF project of the month is the OpenNMS
system. I want Xymon there.

I also think as a collective that use the Xymon system we should look at
making forking BBWin into XyWin?

Anyway these are my thoughts. I have joined the developers list and will
contribute to that from now on.

Regards
Neil



-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com] 
Sent: 29 June 2010 06:00 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Any idea on a 4.3.0 third beta (or rc?) timeframe?

On 06/28/2010 04:28 AM, Buchan Milne wrote:

> There is a developers list for the hobbitmon project on SF. A number
of people
> are subscribed, including people with commit access.
>
> However, there is currently only one project admin for the SF project,
Henrik
> (which means no more committers can be added at present, and some
features
> that may assist in collaboration can't be enabled).

Is Henrik still interested in being the single admin, or should he be 
contacted and asked if another person can be added in that role?  I 
recall postings where he described health issues and also a desire to 
stop working so much on xymon, and I don't fault him for wanting to take

a break.  However, it would be nice to know if he plans to work on the 
project again, or if he's done with it and wants to move onto other 
things.  I've been around open source long enough to know how the 
process works and I respect the developers who put time in on their 
projects.  Sure xymon works fine now, but if something changes in a 
distro one or more of us are using and it breaks xymon, we'll all have 
to make a choice on how to move forward.  It would be best for the 
community as a whole if we had an idea of where things stood and where 
they might go.

> Anyway, I think we should move this discussion to the developer list,
and
> discuss a way forward there.

I joined that list so that I can follow the discussion, but I do think 
this topic is of interest to members of this list, too.

Tom

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