Nagios 4: Call for testing

[O'Hara, Brad]

Dan,

  Will there be further announcement once they are available?

Thanks,
Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r0ko at statefarm.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:53 PM
To: Nagios Developers List
Cc: <hannes.doyle at ericsson.com>; Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios 4: Call for testing

RPM's for CentOS/RHEL 6 will be available tomorrow.  Shout if you want them built for other platforms and I'll see what I can do.

Dan


On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Yes, you read it right. Nagios 4 is approaching, but it needs your 
> help to reach the finish-line, so pretty please HELP!
> 
> Right now, config parsing is a lot quicker. Check execution is done 
> through workers, except on-demand host chekc execution, which is still 
> handled by the serial model.
> 
> Code can be fetched from either of:
> svn co https://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagios nagios 
> git://github.com/ageric/nagios.git
> 
> The people who provide me with the most valuable bug reports will be 
> rewarded with a special prize, apart from a special mention at the 
> Nagios World Conference 2012, happening in Minneapolis on september 
> 25, 26, 27 and 28 this year (as it's 2012...).
> 
> Points will be given on:
> * Accuracy of bugreport. If the bug is triggered by one of 13 trillion  
> serviceescalations, you'll have an excellent chance if you produce  an 
> example config which reproduces the problem without creating a  huge 
> overhead.
> * Patchiness of bugreport. If the bug contains valgrind output showing  
> illegal memory access, or a backtrace of the error, it will be given  
> extra credit. If it contains a minimal setup displaying the error as  
> well as a patch fixing the error, you're almost sure to be in the  
> very small Circle Of Winners.
> * Surgeonry of bugreport. If a patch fixes a billion unrelated items,  
> points will be taken from it.
> * bugreports of a slow Nagios accompanied by gprof or valgrind output  
> output will be given priority over other bugreports of a slow Nagios.
> 
> 
> Note that only bugreports providede *before* 2012-09-24 will be 
> considerered, and also note that the winners will be announced at the 
> Nagios World Conference 2012 (unless they explicitly ask me not to 
> mention their names, in which case they can't even compete, really, 
> but will probably get several shots from me if I ever meet them and 
> *may* get a very special prize anyway).
> 
> 
> Patches can be provided for Core Nagios, Livestatus, NDOUtils, Merlin 
> mod_gearman, dnx_utils or npcdmod. Each project gives extra points, 
> provided it's universal. Patches that promote a specific installation 
> directory are worthless and won't be considered.
> 
> 
> So spedang! and get your hack on, folks :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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> 
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> terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war 
> on peace.
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