The nagios community wants to keep its open soul

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 02/26/2010 10:01 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>
>> Is it just me who can picture Ethan giggling away at the keyboard while
>> he was writing that email? Personally, I thought it was hilarious :D
> Well it was a reaction I never expected - so it's quite funny to look 
> at. Although it makes the situation even worse. But hey, I don't know 
> how the express that in English but here in Austria we have an 
> expression like "take your ass up into the community's face" aka "mitm 
> orsch ins gsicht fohrn" ;-)
> 

Ethan has a fine ass though. He even shakes it quite nicely when he's
dancing. But we're digressing.

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> Basically you are pointing to op5 related software.

Well, yes, and no. I'm a lazy bastard and I point to the projects I
know about. pnp and Nagvis aren't exactly op5 related more than that
we've patched them to work with the Merlin database and those patches
have been accepted upstream.

> What I don't get is 
> the fact, that there was the proposal to take Merlin/Ninja into Nagios 
> and provide everything alltogether with a new webinterface and neb 
> module and so on. What did happen to that idea?

It's sort of happening, and sort of not happening. Keep in mind that
we still haven't released Ninja 1.0 (scheduled for 2010-03-26) and
that Merlin still has a few kinks to work out. Making either of those
a default in Nagios prematurely would be irresponsible.

>>
>> Besides the above ones, many of the suggestions on ideas.nagios.org
>> are already implemented or could easily be implemented by someone
>> who really cares about the feature requested. But people are lazy and
>> seem to be scared of ending up maintaining a software project, though
>> they have no hesitation asking someone else to do what they really
>> don't want to or can do.
> Who maintains or moderates ideas.nagios.org? Devs or is it something in 
> Nagios Enterprises?
> 

I think it sort of moderates itself. Ideas with a really low score
(somewhere around -30 perhaps) are automagically removed from the
viewings.

I know I'm not touching it other than to vote for stuff anyways.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225                  Fax: +46 8-230231

Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
on peace.

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