[Xymon] Please welcome the new Xymon v4 maintainer: J.C. Cleaver

[Martin Flemming]

Really great News !!!

thanks & cheers

 	martin

On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Henrik Størner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer
> of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
>
> jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps
> best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on
> terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into
> the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my
> being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work
> between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on
> the upcoming version 5.
>
> And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of
> version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
>
> Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues
> unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website
> will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the
> primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading
> the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this
> forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
>
>
> But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby"
> since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen"
> and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My
> original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at
> http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to
> CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today.
> But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my
> daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite
> limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a
> standstill.
>
> It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to
> acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc
> taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along
> the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I
> am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the
> project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even
> better.
>
> So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Henrik
>
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