[xmlsysinfo-talk] Project status

[Moritz G. <md...@gm...>]

Hello subscribers,


as it is now bleeding obvious, various reasons caused the XSI project to
plunge into despair and neglect. I am now trying to "reboot" the whole
thing.

When I started it, my life circumstances allowed me to work on XSI
almost full-time over long periods. This hasn't been the case for a long
time now, and various other projects of higher immediate importance ate
up all the remaining free time.

XSI needs to adapt to these changes, to be able to move forward. As part
of the cleaning process, I will shut down anything non-essential related
to project management, soon.

Among other things, these mailing lists have shown to be completely
superfluous and will go away. All these SourceForge features are nice
and shiny, but well ... something like XSI does not need community
self-support, at least not now.

If you have any inquiries, please feel free to contact me directly under
my new address mgrimm at mrsserver dot net.

In any case, thanks for being here!

A few last words:
- Unless something really unforeseen happens, XSI and related things are
  not dead. I for myself still have use for a networked system monitor
  that Just Works.
- Still, no guarantees on the "when". Things will, overall, progress
  slowly.
- There will be an extensive overhaul of the code base eventually, as
  well as an "XSI Aggregator" of sorts that collects information from
  hosts running XSI.
- It is of high priority to achieve the former without changing the
  output XSL schema in a major-version-1 release. If that turns out to
  be impossible, there will be XSI 2 (with as few output changes as
  possible.)
- *Maybe* some kind of front-end, but it'll be an ugly mock-up. I suck
  at GUIs.


All the best,

Moritz