hey guys...
... i'm most of the way moved from berkeley to yahoo. i don't think i
told you guys but i also sold my old house and moved into a new one in
parallel to moving jobs. chaos.
i did the move myself using three large moving pods (that the storage
company drops off and then picks up later). i didn't know it but the
company weighs the pods and writes the weight on the container: the
lightest was just under 2000 pounds and the heaviest was over 2400
pounds. no kidding.. i moved almost 3 tons of crap.
enough of my whining.
this is the first weekend that i feel i have some free time to do what
i want. i just took that time to install mediawiki on the ganglia web
site (http://ganglia.info/wiki/). i don't have a lot of experience
with mediawiki but based on the web sites i've read it one of the
better ones.
i want to move the ganglia web site over to a wiki to allow the entire
ganglia community the ability to post/edit whatever they feel it
important. last time i setup a wiki, it was always filled with lots of
online casino links. bother.
if anyone out there is a mediawiki master, let me know and i'll get up
an admin account for you on the site (it has no content at this time).
if anyone out there knows a better wiki, please let me know.
i'm not going to change to the wiki until i'm pretty sure everything is
in place for the move.
it sounds like we are reaching a point where a 3.0.2 release should
occur. i looks like bernard li may have volunteered to be our newest
release guru. :) seriously though... i haven't a had a change to hit
the bugzilla database (fyi, berkeley has agreed to continue hosting
it). i know there is a new AIX metric file that was submitted. what
else do we need to do to get the next release together, tested and out
the door? anything i can do to help?
i was thinking that it might be useful to have a smaller developers
list for people who are dedicated to quality control and rolling new
ganglia releases. the ganglia-developers could forward quality patches
and code to that list. maybe that is useless.. what do you think?
i know i'm rambling on here but i thought i'd throw out a bunch of
ideas and see what you guys think.
last (but not least)... what do you guys think about a new gmetad
written in python?
i've scrapped the java idea (based on feedback and some test code i
wrote). i think using a very portable OO language with rich
XML/XMLRPC/RRD/socket support would really help us in the long run.
i'll try to hang out on the irc list more during the day in the hopes
of getting the conversation moving and just staying in touch.
take care guys.. don't work too hard this week.
-matt
