Nagios 2.0!

[Lawrence, Lynne]

Please, please stop this thread!

There should be no surprise or offense taken that others may want to become
more active contributors to the Nagios project.  This is a common occurrence
- happens all the time in the OSS world, and frequently results in good
working relationships and greater progress on projects.  There are also a
good sampling of OSS projects whose contributors reap monetary benefit from
support of users and/or are paid by some corporation to support the project
- this should not be surprising or objectionable either.

Andreas has, and tactfully enough I think, broached the subject.  Ethan has
responded in the negative, as is his right.  End of story for now.

This rather bitter attack on Andreas is unwarranted, unproductive, and
depressing to the rest of us who appreciate Andreas's helpfulness on the
nagios lists.

Thank you Ethan, thank you Andreas, back to work,

Lynne Lawrence  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Tom DE
> BLENDE (GCC)
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:36 AM
> To: Andreas Ericsson
> Cc: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios 2.0!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> > although I'm sure most people look at the level of the reply depth 
> > indicators (usually a '>' sign) and quickly deduce who wrote what.
> 
> You want a screen capture of how it looks in Mozilla? I am 
> familiar with 
> the concept of depth indicators.
> 
> > What's that got to do with anything?
> 
> I'll explain it to you. You and your company make money out 
> of Nagios. 
> So (quick) updates to (alpha) code are important to you, as you 
> obviously are using this alpha code in production 
> environments. If code 
> changes are not applied in a timely fashion for you, your job becomes 
> harder, because what you deploy and what is in CVS gets out of synch.
> 
> The problem however, is that Ethan is not making any money out of 
> Nagios, and thus development isn't always as fast, changes don't get 
> applied at regular intervals. I'd say: learn to live with 
> that. If you 
> CAN'T live with that, fork the project and do it yourself. In my very 
> humble opinion, it is bad manner to put the amount of stress 
> on Ethan to 
> commit changes and spend time on the project as you do. 
> Again: for you 
> it's a living, for him it's a hobby. I would hate to see 
> Ethan leave the 
> project because he gets too much pressure from the community, and 
> decides it is not worth it anymore...
> 
> Have a nice weekend...
> Tom
> 
> 
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