[Perfparse-announce] To all members and developers

[Ben C. <bcl...@pe...>]

Dear PerfParse users and developers,

There are quite a few people working on various parts of the project 
today.  I think it's time we all introduced our selves, and said a 
little about where we would like to take our project.

To help this, I'll like people who have been involved recently.  I hope 
some of you may reply to this and let us know a little more about your 
current activity.

Starting with our two newest members:

Benoit and Guillaume.

They will be working to bring PP to Debian.  If they are on these 
mailing lists, maybe they can say a little more.


Now our oldest members:

Ben, Garry, Yves.

My self, I started this project in order to answer a posting on the 
nagios-plugin mailing list, around May 2003.  The entire project was 
then just one line of code.  Something like:

tail -f serviceperf.log | awk | mysql

I then wrote PP as a demo and for my personal use.  This very soon 
became PerfParse with the encouragement of many users.

Garry joined and turned my attempt at a web site into the professional 
looking site we now have.  He also provides some great documentation.  I 
am sure most of our users found PP through Garry's documents.  I thank 
him that the projects early success.

Yves re-wrote a lot of the code, as well as building the product into a 
  GNU automake environment, internationalizing the code, and making the 
code more modular.  Without his help the product I am sure would  have 
never developed into anything like it's current state.   His needs and 
my needs are different, which gives the project the ability to answer to 
many users needs.

Other members:

Flo Gleixner.

Flo described him self as a 'slow coder'.  From his workings so far on 
tiki/wiki and perfparse, this can be his only short falling.  His work 
is as good as the best coder you are likely to meet.  Flo is working on 
a php front end for PerfParse, using similar methods as tiki/wiki.  A 
suggested goal to merge Nagios PP into a wiki type product, giving to 
the user the ability and advantages of all systems.

Rene Grabner.

Rene is working to translate the documents into German.

Tim Wuyts.

Tim has contributed many ideas, as well as some scripts to the product. 
Most recently he has given us the Raw Data Summary storage.  This will 
greatly enhance the product.

Friedrich Priewasser

Friedrich is working on a conversion to PostgreSQL, which should be 
released sometime very soon.  I am sure this will open PerfParse to many 
new users.

Massimiliano Minniti

Massimiliano is looking into a conversion to Oracle storage.

Carsten Franke

Translation of PerfParse into German.

Jeff Scott

Who kindly donated domains including perfparse.org.

Thanks as well to all the other members who have contributed time, 
testing, ideas and code to the project.  Including in no order:

Charles Allred, Chris Donovan, Dirk Beer, Ethan Galstad, James 
Greenhalgh, James Ochs, Jon Lyons, Julian Touche, Darren Kemp, 
Krzemiński Krzysztof, Marcos & Marcelo, Norbert Wiedeke, Philipp Sand, 
Sebastien Guilbaud and Ton Voon.

My personal thanks to you all.

Regards, Ben.



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Ben Clewett  bcl...@pe...
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