Nagios 4: Call for testing

Assaf Flatto nagios at flatto.net
Fri Sep 14 21:02:22 CEST 2012


On 13/09/12 23:00, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Yes, you read it right. Nagios 4 is approaching, but it needs your
> help to reach the finish-line, so pretty please HELP!
>
> Right now, config parsing is a lot quicker. Check execution is
> done through workers, except on-demand host chekc execution, which
> is still handled by the serial model.
>
> Code can be fetched from either of:
> svn co https://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagios nagios
> git://github.com/ageric/nagios.git
>
> The people who provide me with the most valuable bug reports will be
> rewarded with a special prize, apart from a special mention at the
> Nagios World Conference 2012, happening in Minneapolis on september
> 25, 26, 27 and 28 this year (as it's 2012...).
>
> Points will be given on:
> * Accuracy of bugreport. If the bug is triggered by one of 13 trillion
>    serviceescalations, you'll have an excellent chance if you produce
>    an example config which reproduces the problem without creating a
>    huge overhead.
> * Patchiness of bugreport. If the bug contains valgrind output showing
>    illegal memory access, or a backtrace of the error, it will be given
>    extra credit. If it contains a minimal setup displaying the error as
>    well as a patch fixing the error, you're almost sure to be in the
>    very small Circle Of Winners.
> * Surgeonry of bugreport. If a patch fixes a billion unrelated items,
>    points will be taken from it.
> * bugreports of a slow Nagios accompanied by gprof or valgrind output
>    output will be given priority over other bugreports of a slow Nagios.
>
>
> Note that only bugreports providede *before* 2012-09-24 will be
> considerered, and also note that the winners will be announced at the
> Nagios World Conference 2012 (unless they explicitly ask me not to
> mention their names, in which case they can't even compete, really, but
> will probably get several shots from me if I ever meet them and *may*
> get a very special prize anyway).
>
>
> Patches can be provided for Core Nagios, Livestatus, NDOUtils, Merlin
> mod_gearman, dnx_utils or npcdmod. Each project gives extra points,
> provided it's universal. Patches that promote a specific installation
> directory are worthless and won't be considered.
>
>
> So spedang! and get your hack on, folks :)
>
>
Doing the svn check out , i get a svn dump of all nagios versions except 
4 , and browsing the svn shows no trace of the nagios4 branch .

Can you specify the exact branch to check out ?

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