The nagios community wants to keep its open soul

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:54 AM
>To: Nagios Developers List
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] The nagios community wants to keep its open soul
>
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>As far as the future of Nagios, it is Ethan's project, not ours; it always has been and >we are along for the ride. We can have hopes and dreams about what it can become and >Ethan may buy into them, or he may not. We can propose contributions and he may accept >them, or he may not. Regardless, we will all make our own decisions about whether this is >compatible with our own goals. Some will stay, some will move on. C'est la vie.
>
>--
>Marc

I agree with Marc.  However, one thing that continues to puzzle me is what exactly
the core developers do.  It was my understanding that when Ethan announced the
addition of some core developers that there would be more changes to the core.  I
thought that meant that those core developers could

- evolve the Nagios core on their own based on their own judgments, agreement of
other core developers and perhaps input from the community as appropriate

- accept patches as appropriate from the community and implement them

It was not my understanding that Ethan would continue to be the sole person who
touched the core and made all decisions about the core.  That is that if Ethan
doesn't do it, it doesn't get done.  So I'm confused.

Now, I totally appreciate and admire what I've seen getting done in terms of smaller
patches and particularly the Merlin/Ninja work, but that's not really core work.
I know that the work that people like Andreas do is funded by Op5 and I don't have a
problem with that.  I don't quite know where the time and possibly money would come
from to develop the core, but I agree it does need to happen.  I've seen many
good messages from Andreas about things that need to be redone/reworked in the core
and have wondered how they ever will get done.  It's probably more work than
members of the community would take on themselves.  Perhaps I would have hoped
that Nagios Enterprises might fund the core team to make those changes but maybe
that's my imagination.

So I'm still a very happy Nagios user and like the work I see happening, I'm just
wishing there'd be more.

-Mark

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