The icinga on the cake ...

[Andreas Ericsson]

Sean Carolan wrote:
>> Not being a developer myself, I'm not quite sure what to say or think,
>> except that I'm continuously deeply grateful to everyone who bring us
>> Nagios itself, and the plugins and tools which make it greater than
>> the sum of its parts.
> 
> This is, IMHO, one of the greatest problems with open source
> development.  Too much bickering, splintering and forking dilutes the
> value of the product.

Personally, I think you're wrong. GCC (one of the most portable and
portability-friendly compiler collections in the world) "suffered" a
big fat fork in 1997, and it ended up being extremely good for the
project.

The X windowing system *remains* forked into at least 4 different
schisms. Right now, it looks as if X.org is winning. A few years
ago, everyone used XFree86.

>  It's unfortunate that the main nagios devs and
> these icinga people could not work together to simply improve the
> existing code base.   There are a lot of great features that could be
> added to nagios, yet it feels like development on some of these major
> features has been very sloooooooow.
> 

True. That's a major complaint of the forkees too. The majorest (err..)
is that development hasn't been open enough though. Ethan and some other
prominent community members are working on fixing that. I'm guessing
info regarding that will be publicly available on monday afternoon,
European time.

> Ethan, if you're reading this, cheer up mate.  You are sitting on a
> virtual gold mine.  Nagios is hands-down the best network monitoring
> system available, you should be minting money selling support
> contracts for it.  If you aren't then hire some good salespeople to
> sell your support contracts and maybe a find good web developer to
> give the GUI an upgrade!
> 

I agree about the GUI. Rumor has it that discussions are under way to
solve that too very shortly.

Ethan will send something out very early next week (not "he may do so"
or "I hope he will do so"; He *will* do so, or I'll go to minnesota and
thump him on the head). The email he'll send out will contain, among
other things, his future plans to make Nagios development move along
faster. Possibly, there'll be something about GUI discussions in there
as well. It's friday night here (2:32 AM), and I really don't know
everything. This time, I feel confident that noone will be disappointed
when I say: "Just wait and see. There may be pumpkins in it."

/Andreas

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