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

[TJ Yang]

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.
>
> David.
>
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