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

[TJ Yang]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Johan Sjöberg
<johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I just want to say that I am really glad that you people are planning to resurrect the Xymon development. My company has started considering a switch to another monitoring software because of the non-existent development, but I would really like to stay with Xymon. If I could code and had some more time to spare I would be happy to help, but I don't think I can contribute much at the moment.
>
Please join us later when you have spare time.
> Have you set up any plans regarding the future development? Are you going to follow the roadmap that Henrik posted on the list a long time ago?
>

This have to wait until we have new project admin(s).

tj
> Keep up the great work,
> Johan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TJ Yang [mailto:tjyang2001 at gmail.com]
> Sent: den 2 juli 2010 08:03
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Re: [Hobbitmon-developer] Xymon is practically dead
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Neil Franken
> <nfranken at theunlimitedworld.co.za> wrote:
>> Put me up for:
>>
>> 1)      Development
>>
>> 2)      Documentation
>>
>> 3)      Support
>>
> Done, you are 21st person answered the call for help.
>>
>> 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.
>
> This will be a great howto addition to wikibook howto.
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO
>
> Thanks
>>
>>
>> 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_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
>
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