RE: [hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?

["Lennon, Padraig" <Padraig.Lennon (at) pioneerinvestments.com>]

Yes I agree that the product does work, but as Josh says there is no visability on bug fixes, feature requests etc... 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: 04 March 2010 20:57
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?

I would agree that it works as it stands but when people are finding
bugs and providing the answer to them but not making it to the
released copy for other people, that is what begins to concern me and
I am sure others.

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On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I think Xymon has gotten so close to perfection that there is not
> much left to do without making fundamental architectural changes, or taking
> on huge tasks (like SNMP management).  PuTTY has not been updated in quite a
> while, either, and I am quite happy with what it does.
>
> I am sure we would all like more features, or a more zippy GUI (or a GUI for
> admin), but you can make a lot of hay with Xymon as it sits right now.
>
> If you search the archive you may find some notes from Henrik about futures,
> but since he has a day job he probably is not able to work on Xymon as much
> as he once did.
>
> GLH
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Lennon, Padraig
> <Padraig.Lennon (at) pioneerinvestments.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to know where Xymon is going... It's a good product but its
>> not active enough from a development point of view..
>>
>> Henrik I would not like to insult you or anyone else on this list but can
>> we have a definitive statement on the future of Xymon?
>>
>>
>> Padraig Lennon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com]
>> Sent: 04 March 2010 17:38
>> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Is anyone maintaining xymon anymore?
>>
>> I am concerned as well.  The last email Henrik posted on this list was
>> Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:21 AM.  Exactly four months ago today.
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
>> continue that counts."
>> --- Winston Churchill
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:31 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 (at) gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Cade Robinson <cade.robinson (at) gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Is anyone maintaining xymon currently?
>> >
>> > Yes, in theory. These are people have write access to hobbit SVN tree.
>> > http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=128058
>> >
>> > Henrik is the project leader and doing most of the development work.
>> >
>> >> I have several bugs that I have patches for that I am sure is affecting
>> >> others.  I have posted them but nothing gets commited to SVN.
>> >
>> > Thanks for the fix, I was able to confirm the "INCLUDE" bug, but I
>> > haven't have a chance to verify your patch on my test servers. I am
>> > hoping Henrik can make the commit happen after verification.
>> >
>> >> Also I just hack my way through knowing a little C but I don't know if
>> >> the patches are right.  I know they fix my issues but don't know if
>> >> they
>> >> cause other issues.
>> >
>> > I am not confident to commit changes since I am still catching up
>> > (reading)on C and network programming books.
>> >
>> >> The last few commits to SVN have been done to the branches and nothing
>> >> done to "trunk" in over a year.  Isn't trunk supposed to be the latest
>> >> devel area and "branches" are releases?
>> >
>> >> "trunk" is almost 200 commits behind branches which doesn't make a lot
>> >> of sense to me.
>> >>
>> >> I see there are open bugs almost 5 years old so that doesn't look to be
>> >> used either.
>> >>
>> >> So just curious if this project is still in development and if I could
>> >> be of help to get things fixed and maybe help get the SVN layout into
>> >> "best practice".
>> >
>> > I hope Henrik can create you an S.F. hobbit developer account.
>> >
>> >
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