[Xymon] Xymon 4.4 Alpha

[Japheth Cleaver]

On 9/28/2016 5:38 AM, SebA wrote:
> Hi list,
> Xymon 4.4 Alpha was released at the beginning of April, virtually 6 
> months ago (although I do not think it was ever announced, except via 
> the subversion commits and changes- that is all I can find). It was 
> great to watch so many commits coming in leading up to that and Xymon 
> really seemed to havegood momentum.  But it seems to have been losing 
> it since then.  Has anyone been using or testing this version?  Have 
> you got any bug reports, or has it all been working fine for you?  If 
> so, any messages saying so may encourage others to try it and help 
> progression towards a stable release. If you didn't know about it, and 
> want to try it, I think that would be great!  (Browse here: 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/branches/4.x-master/ or 
> checkout of subversion with this command: svn co 
> https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xymon/code/branches/4.x-master/ xymon-4.4-alpha)
> BTW, a 4.4-alpha folder was created on SourceForge on 1st April (and I 
> do not think it was an April Fool's joke!), but no file is visible there.
> Kind regards,
> SebA

Well, it wasn't intended as an April Fool's joke, that's for sure!

Development on 4.x hit the classic 90/10 issue, where the first 90% 
takes 90% of the time, and then the final 10% takes the next 90% of the 
time. The primary unexpected outstanding issue has been around the TCP 
connection code's integration with compression and SSL. I know both of 
those were (two of) the major features that people were looking forward 
to in 4.4, so I'd wanted to ensure both of those were working before a 
"real" announcement had been made. Unfortunately, integrating those 
parts of the code that were working in 4.3 into the new 4.4 version is 
more complex than I'd expected.

I think for areas not involving those two features, the code base may be 
sufficient for an alpha. A generated tarball would help get more eyes on 
it certainly.


Regards,
-jc
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