[Xymon] Hello... again!

[Sean MacGuire]

Congratulations JC, and Henrik!  Awesome.

J.C. Cleaver wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the
> Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of
> software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon
> has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and
> the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded
> and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
> 
> 
> For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure
> all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the
> grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick
> status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus
> network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen,
> and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and
> engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the
> project continues to thrive!
> 
> 
> The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing
> shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I
> envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement
> submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature
> development.
> 
> 
> I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, February 3, 2015 7:13 am, 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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