Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead

[Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:16 PM, TJ Yang <tjyang2001 (at) gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:57 PM, David Baldwin
> <david.baldwin (at) ausport.gov.au> wrote:
> > TJ Yang wrote:
> >>> Before a new admin is chosen, I think it would be a good idea to create
> a
> >>> list of the tasks and responsibilities that the volunteer(s) would be
> taking
> >>> on.  It doesn't have to be a complete list, but just something that
> covers
> >>> the major points.  If you want to be an active developer (and I hope
> that
> >>> you do, as you know the code better than anyone and can help others get
> up
> >>> to speed), it would be nice to know what the admin(s) should be helping
> you
> >>> with.
> >>>
> >>
> >> How about this ?
> >>
> >>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_resource_allocation
> >>
> It is renamed as
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guide#Xymon_volunteers_Roles_and_Responsiblity
>
> >> If no objection, I will put in more effort complete the table.
> >> tj
> >>
> > Good stuff to see all this activity which is very timely in ensuring
> > that hobbit/xymon has a viable future.
> >
> > I am also keen to be involved. I've done quite a lot of custom tests
>
> I take that as a Yes. You are tagged as Volunteer in Dev area.
>
> > mostly written in perl, devmon templates, custom graphs, etc. Good
> > intentions to get an installable xymon package for MacOSX that would be
> > good to get kicked along as part of this momentum.
>
> David, I once created an OS X .pkg file from command line approach.
> But the package was just an binary untar, no package script actions
> from pre-flight,post-flight  .pkg script.
> I am hoping to work on this again with your help.
>
> tj
>
> > Occasionally I've
> > dived into the C source and diagnosed some bugs. Haven't read the doco
> > enough either - keep finding hidden gems which I expect others may have
> > missed as well.
>

 I've poked around a bit in the source and written a lot of checkout scripts
for web pages and other things.  Unfortunately that was mostly at my last
employer, and I may not be able to introduce Xymon to my current employer.
That will severely  any development I might do, but I can proofread docs for
spelling and grammer, if not for technical accuracy...

I've also been doing a bit of end used support in the mailing list.

Ralph Mitchell