roadmap for 2.x and other release-related questions

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Mardi 15 Février 2005 22:07, sean finney a écrit :
> hi,
>
> here come a bunch of 2.0 release-related questions... my
> apologies in advance :)

no problem ;-)

> we've had a number of requests for debian packages of the new 2.x
> series of nagios, and i'm wondering what the state of the development
> process is towards the official "2.0" release.  i've been following
> nagios-announce, but haven't actually built/installed the latest version
> myself.  is the latest nagios at a point that it should be considered
> for inclusion in distributions?  if not, is it close?  work could
> certainly start on it beforehand, but i wouldn't want to make an
> official upload if it weren't mature enough iyho.

yes, we use it extensively and i work fairly well, i can help you making the 
package as i use debian and know nagios quite a lot, i will send you my 
configure line for nagios 2.0 to ease the cooperation with other software, 
like perfparse.

> along those lines, what is the general attitude/experience of 1.3 -> 2.0
> migration?  i've read of a few non-backwards-compatible changes in
> the 2.0 changelogs/notes, the biggest being lack of in-core mysql/pgsql
> support.  wrt that, i read that there will exist an "event broker"
> interface which should give people the ability to write hooks to
> get the support back.  is anyone currently working on this?

Yes there is nagios-db wich is a event broker module for mysql/postgresql, i 
intended to package it but need a sponsor ;-)

> where i'm getting with all this is that i'll need to figure out what
> will make the most sense for the debian users who have nagios 1.x
> packages installed on their systems today.  i see two options:
>
>  - provide a direct upgrade path, including scripts to fix the gotchas
>    and add rdbms support (or scripts for migration from this if not
>    possible)
>
>  - start a second 2.x series of nagios packages with no upgrade path,
>    and continue to maintain 1.x and 2.x seperately.
>
> the second option is obviously much easier logistically, but also
> risks leaving users in the cold if development on nagios 1.x ceasees
> after 2.0 comes out.  it also would keep them from going to 2.0,
> which looks pretty neat :)

I'am all for the second option, because nagios 1.x works good when installed 
and there is no need to upgrade it if it's not needed.

So i would prefer separated packages so i can choose.

Have a nice day
-- 
Benoit Mortier
Linux Engineer
www.opensides.be


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