Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolfgang Lonien [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: zenoss Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Erik Dahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.zenoss.org/ * License : GPL Version 2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product. Zenoss provides a compelling alternative to: * low-end commerical monitoring tools that provide limited functionality and scaleability (e.g What's Up Gold...) * high-end commercial packages that are notoriously expensive and complicated (e.g. IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, HP OpenView...) * building an integrated, scalable open source solution yourself by pulling together many component projects -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:01:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: * Package name: zenoss Version : x.y.z Version? Description : Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product. That's too long for a short a description Zenoss provides a compelling alternative to: * low-end commerical monitoring tools that provide limited (...) This description does not describe what Zenoss does, how it compares to other OSS monitoring or management systems (like Nagios, Cheops, Cacti, Mrtg, Rddtool...) it also should *not* include names of propietary products since that does not help people that do not know them to determine what Zenoss actually does. Please state facts and features, that description is pure maketing b**t. Please, re-read the Developer's Reference, 6.2.1 General guidelines for package descriptions available at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-desc-basics Regards Javier signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
On 07-Apr-06, 08:01 (CDT), Wolfgang Lonien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name: zenoss Version : x.y.z Need version number (I realize that this may be moving target right now, just don't want to forget it in the final.) Upstream Author : Erik Dahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.zenoss.org/ * License : GPL Version 2 Programming Lang: Python Description : Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product. Don't use the package name in the short description - they'll always be displayed together in the normal tools. The short description needs to be less than a line to display with the normal tools, and since it's widely used for searching, probably doesn't need meaningless advertising words like powerful, integrated, and easy-to-use. Perhaps; Description: network infrastucture monitoring and alerting tool Zenoss provides a compelling alternative to: * low-end commerical monitoring tools that provide limited functionality and scaleability (e.g What's Up Gold...) * high-end commercial packages that are notoriously expensive and complicated (e.g. IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, HP OpenView...) * building an integrated, scalable open source solution yourself by pulling together many component projects Yes, but what does it *do*? SNMP monitoring? Network service monitoring? Local resource (e.g. diskspace or CPU usage) monitoring? Alert by e-mail, or pager, or IM? Web based? How is it configured? Any autodetection capabilities? Please save the marketing nonsense for the upstream website, and provide the Debian users with enough info to determine if the tool is something they might be able to use. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:01:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: * Package name: zenoss Version : x.y.z I doubt it. Description : Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product. 1) Repeats the package name 2) Way too long 3) Spends most of it's time blowing it's own trumpet instead of telling us what it actually is Description: infrastructure monitoring tool would be far better. Zenoss provides a compelling alternative to: * low-end commerical monitoring tools that provide limited functionality and scaleability (e.g What's Up Gold...) * high-end commercial packages that are notoriously expensive and complicated (e.g. IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, HP OpenView...) * building an integrated, scalable open source solution yourself by pulling together many component projects Instead of dumping on the competition, why not tell us what makes zenoss so good? - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:01:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: [a quick and overly enthusiastic ITP against WNPP for zenoss] Ok, Matt others, thanks for pointing that out for me. Justin said I should tell you all that there's a thread at debian-mentors about it. I hope to describe it better in the package I'll make. But thanks again. cheers, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- Key ID 0x728D9BD0 public key available at wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Key fingerprint = A923 2294 B7ED EB3E 2F18 AE56 AAB8 D36A 728D 9BD0 we prefer encrypted text-only emails all systems here proudly run Debian GNU/Linux signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#361253: ITP: zenoss -- Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product.
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:01:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: * Package name: zenoss Version : x.y.z Version? Oh ooops - seems like my personal multitasking abilities were disabled for a while... sorry. Since this will be my first package ever: how do I correct my bug report 361253 against WNPP? Simply with: - Version : x.y.z + Version : 0.19.3 ? Description : Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product. That's too long for a short a description Hmmm ok. I'll correct that one, too. Zenoss provides a compelling alternative to: * low-end commerical monitoring tools that provide limited (...) This description does not describe what Zenoss does, how it compares to other OSS monitoring or management systems (like Nagios, Cheops, Cacti, Mrtg, Rddtool...) it also should *not* include names of propietary products since that does not help people that do not know them to determine what Zenoss actually does. ok... Please state facts and features, that description is pure maketing b**t. Please, re-read the Developer's Reference, 6.2.1 General guidelines for package descriptions available at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-desc-basics I will surely have the 3 books at my desk when packaging this. Sorry for my quick overly enthusiastic bug report, abd thanks a lot for taking the time and correcting me. I CC it to debian-mentors, since I obviously need some help and don't wanna bother in -devel too much. cheers, wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien -- Key ID 0x728D9BD0 public key available at wwwkeys.de.pgp.net Key fingerprint = A923 2294 B7ED EB3E 2F18 AE56 AAB8 D36A 728D 9BD0 Honda Toyota are running on fuel - everything else here proudly runs Debian GNU/Linux
