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RE: [Perfparse-users] To all members and developers
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From: Ben C. <bcl...@pe...> - 2005-01-19 09:07:53
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Cook, Garry wrote: > Thank you Ben for the kind words. All meant well. A bad web site and poor documentation has killed many a good product in the past. Our success is your work :) > 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. I can understand snowboarding instead of coding all day. Or in my case, taking a motorbike across Europe. :) I hope things go well for you, please keep in contact. > 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. Sounds great! That should make a huge difference. > 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... I have, as you know, been reticent about RRD. I have written my reasons down here: http://wiki.perfparse.org/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=5#q21 This is not to say we will not do this. Just that I remain unconvinced that this is the correct storage method for PP. But I respect the needs of our users, and if this is what they demand... > 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. Thanks for everything you have contributed, I look forward to anything you can give us in the future. Good luck with your own future projects, Ben. > > 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, >> >>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. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues > Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. > It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt > _______________________________________________ > Perfparse-announce mailing list > Per...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfparse-announce > -- Ben Clewett bcl...@pe... PerfParse http://www.perfparse.org PP FAQ http://wiki.perfparse.org/tiki-list_faqs.php |
