Hi all. Sorry for cross-posting, but I figured this might be of interest to a wider audience of the community.
Having spoken to Hendrik Baecker at the Netways conference this year, I've come to realize that there is possibly a need for more distributed efforts regarding the Nagios core, and especially how patches to it are managed. I approached Ethan with some suggestions, and the result is that I will maintain a patch queue for him to review/apply when he has time. This patch queue will be stored as a git repository located at http://www.op5.org. To clone this repository using git (http://www.git-scm.org) use git://www.op5.org/git/nagios.git as the URL. The gitweb url is http://www.op5.org/git/nagios.git The patch queue also contains a full import of the Nagios CVS repository, so those who prefer using git over CVS, go right ahead and check out the un-modified "master" branch. Note that snapshots are not yet provided, although you can get them from the gitweb page by clicking the "snapshot" link. I want to make it absolutely clear that Ethan still has the final call on bugfixes and feature suggestions. I'm merely helping out so that important patches aren't accidentally dropped when he locks himself up to work on new user interfaces, features, etc, etc. That also means that if your patch makes it into the patch queue (ie, it passes the first round of review), that is by no means a guarantee for inclusion into Nagios itself. Trivial and obviously correct bugfixes will almost certainly be included, while features are a little less certain. Like I said, Ethan and the community owns the Nagios code, so the decision is ultimately up to him. If you are curious about who I am; keep reading. Otherwise you can save a few minutes by stopping right here. Who the hell are you, Mr "handles a patch queue"? I'm a member of the Nagios Community Advisory Board, and I've been reviewing patches on nagios-devel for quite some years. Getting a public repository to put them in will simply make it easier for me to stash the post-review patches off to Ethan. I work as a software designer/engineer at op5, a sweden-based company doing business packaging Nagios as an appliance and selling support contracts to corporations of all sizes. I've been working with op5 5 years and hacking Nagios pretty much all of that time. I'm also an avid git fan(atic) (Hi Ton!) and contributor. As a part of my job, I also spend a lot of time on the various Nagios mailing lists, where I'm sometimes considered "forthright, verging on blunt" by those who want to be kind to me. I also have a blog which I primarily use as a scratchpad for random musings on software development in general and Nagios in particular. The blog can be found at http://blogs.op5.org -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
