Nagios 4: Call for testing

[Daniel Wittenberg]

Definitely.  Ran into some issues last night so taking a bit longer to make them 'road worthy'.  Even for early code I'd like to make sure they work good :)

Dan


On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:06 AM, O'Hara, Brad wrote:

> 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
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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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