Nagios development moving forward

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 05/27/2010 03:33 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> just some feedback from my side on your patches.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Nagios development moving forward
> From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
> To: nagios-devel <nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>, 
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net <Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: 2010-04-29 20:46
> 
>> So for those of you who wish to try out a revamped Nagios with a
>> bunch of bugfixes and code improvements, clone your repo from me
>> or Ton today and build Nagios from source.
> 
> I've taken all your commits and applied them manually onto the current 
> Icinga Core (we changed things, Nagios did not, and next to that, I'd 
> like to understand what you and Toon hacked there ;-)
> 

Primarily code reduction and simplification. The diffstat between my
dev branch and the upstream master looks like this:
47 files changed, 1563 insertions(+), 4272 deletions(-)

Quite a few bugfixes too ofcourse.

> Your hackings are very very nice, and it's a real good start in fixing 
> things and getting rid of old grown code and workarounds.
> 

Yup. More can be done so object code only has to be compiled once for
both cgi's and core for quite a small tradeoff in memory usage. This
would mean simpler code and quite a lot simpler build-system, along
with the possibility of installing nagios-devel header files for us
eventmodule hackers.

> This commit is just WOW :-)
> 
> http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios.git;a=commit;h=555b4b72aae54e65ba923093ef469c3aa5a0edb9 
> 

Glad you like it. Macro voodoo is something of a fetish for me.

> 
> Regarding taking over commits, kudos have been kept both within commit 
> subjects and changelog for our next release including your patches next 
> to ours.
> 

Thanks. Always nice to be appreciated.

>  From the testing arena, everything runs fine. Although the sync 
> retention feature is only one half of the good, the other would be 
> opsview or some nifty hacking on distributed monitoring :) Everything 
> else resolves as it should be.
> 
> 
> By chance, get these changes into a revamped tar.gz and hand that to 
> packagers, if it does not get into current CVS head. Or at least the 
> patch set :)
> 

I'll poke Ethan about releasing 3.2.2 from git so we can get more
people onto the latest and greatest.

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