From: Cook, G. <GW...@ma...> - 2005-01-18 17:16:21
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Thank you Ben for the kind words. While I was initially able to contribute quite a bit to the = documentation of PP, I have fallen back from the project over the past = few months. This is due to many things, such as moving my office to a = new location, moving my family to a new home, holidays, snowboarding = season, and most recently family issues that require cross country = travel in the next few weeks and quite possibly searching for a new = position outside of my current organization. Additionally, my Nagios/MRTG server was just not beefy enough to also = handle the MySQL DB, so I have not even used some of the newer versions = of PP. At this time I have acquired a new server specifically for MySQL, = and hope to lend a hand to developers again in the future. When? I'm = still not sure, but hopefully sooner rather than later. One thing that I would like to see is the addition of RRD storage of = metrics. I'm not even sure if the current development track will allow = for this, but I intend to investigate this if someone else does not. = Perhaps some folks can add their thoughts on this issue... Thanks to everyone that Ben has mentioned below. I'm sure that when I = get back to work with PP it will be all the more impressive than it was = a few months ago. Many thanks are also due to Yves, who has contributed quite a bit to = make PP the project that it is today. I'm sorry to see that you will not = be able to contribute as much in the future, although it sounds like you = will not fall back completely as I have at this point. Garry W. Cook, CCNA Network Infrastructure Manager MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/ 303.273.5050 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile) per...@li... wrote: > Dear PerfParse users and developers, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Starting with our two newest members: >=20 > Benoit and Guillaume. >=20 > They will be working to bring PP to Debian. If they are on these > mailing lists, maybe they can say a little more. >=20 >=20 > Now our oldest members: >=20 > Ben, Garry, Yves. >=20 > 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: >=20 > tail -f serviceperf.log | awk | mysql >=20 > I then wrote PP as a demo and for my personal use. This very soon > became PerfParse with the encouragement of many users. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Other members: >=20 > Flo Gleixner. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Rene Grabner. >=20 > Rene is working to translate the documents into German. >=20 > Tim Wuyts. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Friedrich Priewasser >=20 > 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. >=20 > Massimiliano Minniti >=20 > Massimiliano is looking into a conversion to Oracle storage. >=20 > Carsten Franke >=20 > Translation of PerfParse into German. >=20 > Jeff Scott >=20 > Who kindly donated domains including perfparse.org. >=20 > Thanks as well to all the other members who have contributed time, > testing, ideas and code to the project. Including in no order: >=20 > Charles Allred, Chris Donovan, Dirk Beer, Ethan Galstad, James > Greenhalgh, James Ochs, Jon Lyons, Julian Touche, Darren Kemp, > Krzemi=F1ski Krzysztof, Marcos & Marcelo, Norbert Wiedeke, > Philipp Sand, > Sebastien Guilbaud and Ton Voon. >=20 > My personal thanks to you all. >=20 > Regards, Ben. |