Re: [Nagios-db-devel] pgwrapper and other stuffs

[Andreas E. <ae...@op...>]

Ben wrote:
> Regarding a whole new GUI, I have to wonder why start that process from
> scratch? I don't know if you've looked at groundwork's new stuff, but I
> took a gander at it today, and it appears to show promise. Granted, it's
> not yet complete, but it's GPL'd as well, and appears to be mature and
> somewhat polished, as far as it goes.
> 

It has too many dependencies though, so it's not really something that 
is likely to catch on.

> Obviously, you probably have your reasons.... I'm just curious what they 
> are. :) And I guess if you're going to base it off the nagios-db stuff, 
> then you're not really starting from scatch anyway.
> 

We will (start from scratch, that is). We need to get design proper from 
the start, because we'll be wanting to be able to hook in pretty much 
anything pretty much anywhere. Sort of module-based PHP.

> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Matthew Kent wrote:
>>
>>>Hey Ben, just looking at the pgwrapper stuff you added a while back and
>>>I think it's great and exactly what the mysql implementation needs as
>>>well. Have you happened upon a similar implementation for mysql?
>>>
>>>I'm thinking I'll write one and draw up a new version of my neb based on
>>>mysql 5.0 so I can use triggers and stored procs this time around. Plus
>>>I figure by the time I get a good interface together MySQL 5 will
>>>probably go from beta to stable anyway :)
>>>
>>>On the interface front I really never did find a suitable framework for
>>>recreating a better version of the nagios cgis in PHP. The time
>>>investment to create one properly from scratch was just too much (partly
>>>because I'm not fantastic with php in the first place). So I've been
>>>learning ruby for the past couple months with the goal of writing it in
>>>ruby on rails. Ideally it should keep me from having to write the nitty
>>>gritty stuff like authentication, caching and template support and focus
>>>more on presenting the data. 
>>>
>>>Has anyone listening on this list developed with ruby on rails and is
>>>interested in helping?
>>
>>
>>Can't say that I have, but we might be able to give you a load off from 
>>that anyways though.
>>
>>We'll be developing a GUI with everything and sugar on top, and we'll 
>>most likely base it on one (or both) of the database modules.
>>
>>We in this case means OP5, the company I work for. The resulting code 
>>will be GPL'd and released to the public.
>>
>>Incidentally, we're also looking for developers (C, Perl, PHP and SQL 
>>mainly, with some shell and possibly Python thrown in for good measure). 
>>Interested?
>>
>>-- 
>>Andreas Ericsson                   and...@op...
>>OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
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>>
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