RE: [Perfparse-users] To all members and developers

[Cook, G. <GW...@ma...>]

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,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Starting with our two newest members:
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> Benoit and Guillaume.
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> They will be working to bring PP to Debian.  If they are on these
> mailing lists, maybe they can say a little more.
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> Now our oldest members:
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> Ben, Garry, Yves.
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> 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:
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> tail -f serviceperf.log | awk | mysql
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> I then wrote PP as a demo and for my personal use.  This very soon
> became PerfParse with the encouragement of many users.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Other members:
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> Flo Gleixner.
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> 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.
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> Rene Grabner.
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> Rene is working to translate the documents into German.
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> Tim Wuyts.
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> 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.
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> Friedrich Priewasser
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> 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.
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> Massimiliano Minniti
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> Massimiliano is looking into a conversion to Oracle storage.
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> Carsten Franke
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> Translation of PerfParse into German.
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> Jeff Scott
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> Who kindly donated domains including perfparse.org.
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> Thanks as well to all the other members who have contributed time,
> testing, ideas and code to the project.  Including in no order:
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> 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.
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> My personal thanks to you all.
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> Regards, Ben.