On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, nap <napar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We are please to announced that the 0.2 (Bold Badger) version is ready [?] > In fact it's the 0.2.1 because we've got a last bug to solve yesterday [?] > You can get it at http://www.shinken-monitoring.org/download/ (only > sources from now, we are working in the demo VM) > > The changelog of this version is quite long (http://tinyurl.com/35o6chb). > We add some great new features and solved a lot of bugs. > > The major new features are : > *new code layout, no more all in src directory :) > *easy installation with the setup.py script > *Python 2.4 and 2.5 compatibility (for RedHat and Debian users) > *Pyro 3 and 4 compatibility :) (for Debian) > *new code for notification management. Far more easy to understand and with > downtimes and acknowledgment ok :) > *clean and helpful sample configuration files (simple server, HA > installation and load balancing one) > *add a lot of automated regressions and end-to-end tests :) > *problem/impacts management for seeing only real problems in real time > monitoring > *now you can get the tar ball, untar it and launch from every where. Test > is even more easy now :) > > There are more new features as you can see in the Changelog like a > max_plugins_output_length parameter or a last_perf_data macro. Thanks to > everyone that send us patches, really. You can get the full list in the > THANKS file in the sources. > > > Now it's time to take a very small break before the 0.3 to talk about what > we all want to do for this project and how we want it to be done. The > majors points are : > *the global project vision (what we will do and what we will not do) > *how to manage the documentation (where to put the doc, how make it easy > to manage and edit) > *how to prioritize features (feature packs or user value first?) and > release speed ("when it's done" or at "fixed dates"?) > *some dev rules (will be simples and inherited from project vision in fact) > > We will discuss about each one in another thread. > > Some project points are already managed : we want this project to be as > open as possible That means we do not want to be dictators that do not > listen to others. We started this project, but now it not only ours. That's > why we open the git access to other members, and we will do it for every one > that sends us good patches and wants to help this project (that means > documentation, website or code). From now on we are 6 to have this access : > > * David Guenault > * Gerhard Lausser > * Olivier LI-KIANG-CHEONG > * Luke L > * Jean Gabès > * Nicolas Dupeux > > But the participation is not limited to the code or documentation. If we > are doing something wrong, just say it. We will make errors, we are humans > [?] and if no one tells us, we will still make some. > > We really hope this 0.2 version will please everyone and that you will test > and hack it a lot. Packagers, we are open to help you on created Shinken > package for majors distributions. Olivier already works on a Centos package > but it still needs some adaptation (need python2.6 and now 2.4 is OK) to be > done. > > We think this code is stable, and I (Jean) will start to use in my > production environment. > > We still have a long but full of passion road in front of us ( > https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/shinken/report/2). Hopefully, the majors > and hard points are already behind us [?] > > When we will have finished the talk about vision, documentation, features > and dev rules in the others threads, we will go even farther in a project > that all of us can be proud of it, and the first reason for it is because > it's fully open [?] > > > Jean & Gerhard >
Very nice. I hardly deserve thanks. My new employment has drawn my time spent on technology to other places. When I get around to monitoring technology, this will be the tool I test! Cool work, gentlemen. -- Luke L.
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