nagios future?

[Michael Friedrich]

n ... even
m ... odd

3.n.X == 3.0.X
3.m.X == 3.1.X

meaning 3.1.0 is unstable.



Meyer Jerome wrote the following on 10.06.2009 08:30:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> Thanks Andreas and Michael for all the informations (and links) about 
> the future of nagios!
>
> Yeah, I'm happy that It will survive... :)
>
>  
>
> As you mention it, all nagios even releases are stable, so I will 
> install the latest one (3.1.0)!
>
>  
>
> Regards
>
> jerome
>
>  
>
> *Von:* Michael Friedrich [mailto:michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at]
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 9. Juni 2009 13:15
> *An:* Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Betreff:* Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?
>
>  
>
> Hi,
>
> Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 09.06.2009 11:10:
>
> Yes. It was discussed quite a lot some few weeks back on the
> nagios-devel mailing list. Browse the archives for the full
> discussion.
>   
>
> try 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=E03A84B43BAE443888372020DDBFE0E7%40int.consol.de
>
> If you're interested in reading a bit more, try
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=icinga-users
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=icinga-devel
>
>
>  
> The future of Nagios is looking quite bright. In all honesty, that is
> in part thanks to the Icinga fork, which has sparked a flurry of activity
> within the Nagios developer community.
>   
>
> And also popping up many community based sites, beside the existing 
> ones. Not that bad, but a bit misleading for new users imho. But let's 
> see how it resolves in a bit.
> Hopefully Nagios will be on GIT soon to merge knowledge from both 
> projects together. Dunno what plans are going on concerning the NDO 
> and other similar core parts but I think there's much potential to 
> share ideas and kniowledge between Nagios and Icinga.
>
>  
> First of all, we'll be releasing 3.1.1 soon, containing a plethora of
> bug- and performance fixes. Ethan's working on automating the release
> process so that Ton and I can cut releases without having to update a
> bunch of webpages, sourceforge downloads area, documentation, etc, etc.
> 3.1.1 will be the first live test of that automated process. If it drags
> out another week or so though, we'll probably just go ahead and do it
> manually anyway, as 3.1.1 really has a lot of important fixes that the
> Nagios users really should get their hands on.
>   
>
> It would be great to mention that all even releases are stable while 
> odd remains testing. On nagios.org 3.1.0 is only mentioned as "latest 
> version" and after clicking the download link it is marked as testing 
> - bit confusing, but not really a problem for experienced users.
>
>  
> Nagios will get a new GUI, dubbed "Ninja" sometime during or after the
> summer. Ninja is available for download already and is "usable but has
> some warts and is still incomplete" according to Ninja maintainer Per
> Åsberg. You can find out more about it at
> http://www.op5.org/community/projects/ninja. This was announced at the
> Nordic Meet on Nagios which was held in Stockholm just last week. Note
> that it's not necessarily easy to install yet as it's still a work in
> progress. Bug-reports or enhancement requests are ofcourse very welcome,
> and documentation patches for the installation procedures even more so.
>   
>
> By announcing Ninja as new GUI, the rumors get into Merlin for DB 
> usage. I've read several posts about that but my question is, how far 
> would that be realistic? For what I know Merlin uses the libdbi (just 
> as modified IDOUtils for Icinga) so it would be possible to use 
> different db types. Are there any plans to realize that? :-)
>
> Kind regards,
> Michael
>
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