Where are the developers?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Hanging around on IRC, that is irc.freenode.net, #nagios, one rarely,  
> or more precisely /never/ sees any of the core developers, just people  
> using the system and helping out.
> 
> Where are the developers? Is it a closed ring of those six mentioned  
> on http://www.nagios.org/development/teams/core, and if so, why not  
> embrace more of those of us that want to help?
> 

I'll happily embrace anyone who wants to help out, so long as they
don't make me work a lot more to help them help me. Bug-reports, patches
and feature-suggestions require a lot of information before they're
any good. While I fully expect bug-reports to sometimes be sketchy
rather than detailed, I also fully expect anyone eager to assist to
seek out the developers and to find the right channels for doing so.
For Nagios, developers have *always* lived on this email list, and
that's hardly a secret.

I (really) don't have time to sit on irc all day long, so the only
halfway reliable (and therefore sensible) way of contacting me is
through email. I know for a fact that most, if not all, of the other
developers share this thought with me. If there's something specific
you want to discuss that requires fast-paced communication, I'll
happily set a date and time where I can go online on irc so we can
talk about it, but I'll never monitor an irc channel on a "just in
case" basis.

> No doubt the Icinga fork will be a success if this sort of regime  
> keeps going on
> 

I wish them the best of luck. After all, everything good they do
will get incorporated into Nagios (and vice versa, I assume), so
if they're successful so will Nagios be. However, I seriously
doubt you'll find Icinga developers being *active* on irc all the
time. They're just as busy as we are.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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