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

["Neil Franken" <nfranken (at) theunlimitedworld.co.za>]

Put me up for:

1)      Development

2)      Documentation

3)      Support

 

At the moment I am busy with another project so my spare time is kinda
of eaten up. However this project will come to a close in a month more
or less and i will have much more free time to help. Like I mentioned to
some of you I am working on some new layout for the web gui and will
have some templates for you guys in a week. I will also create some
documentation around using Wireshark and the Xymon Protocol.

 

Regards

Neil

 

From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com] 
Sent: 02 July 2010 06:06 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically
dead

 

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_Guid
e#Xymon_volunteers_resource_allocation
>>

It is renamed as
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Developer_Guid
e#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