Re: [Nagios-devel] The nagios community wants to keep its open soul

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>From: Marc Powell [mailto:[email protected]]=20
>Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:54 AM
>To: Nagios Developers List
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] The nagios community wants to keep its open so=
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>As far as the future of Nagios, it is Ethan's project, not ours; it always=
has been and >we are along for the ride. We can have hopes and dreams abou=
t what it can become and >Ethan may buy into them, or he may not. We can pr=
opose contributions and he may accept >them, or he may not. Regardless, we =
will all make our own decisions about whether this is >compatible with our =
own goals. Some will stay, some will move on. C'est la vie.
>
>--
>Marc

I agree with Marc. However, one thing that continues to puzzle me is what =
exactly
the core developers do. It was my understanding that when Ethan announced =
the
addition of some core developers that there would be more changes to the co=
re. I
thought that meant that those core developers could

- evolve the Nagios core on their own based on their own judgments, agreeme=
nt of
other core developers and perhaps input from the community as appropriate

- accept patches as appropriate from the community and implement them

It was not my understanding that Ethan would continue to be the sole person=
who
touched the core and made all decisions about the core. That is that if Et=
han
doesn't do it, it doesn't get done. So I'm confused.

Now, I totally appreciate and admire what I've seen getting done in terms o=
f smaller
patches and particularly the Merlin/Ninja work, but that's not really core =
work.
I know that the work that people like Andreas do is funded by Op5 and I don=
't have a
problem with that. I don't quite know where the time and possibly money wo=
uld come
from to develop the core, but I agree it does need to happen. I've seen ma=
ny
good messages from Andreas about things that need to be redone/reworked in =
the core
and have wondered how they ever will get done. It's probably more work tha=
n
members of the community would take on themselves. Perhaps I would have ho=
ped
that Nagios Enterprises might fund the core team to make those changes but =
maybe
that's my imagination.

So I'm still a very happy Nagios user and like the work I see happening, I'=
m just
wishing there'd be more.

-Mark





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