Dang, editing that on mobile during a really good horror movie really killed 
some of the impact I had hoped it would have. Oh well.

If anyone here gets a chance to watch "The Babadook", give it a go. It's 
excellent!

On April 4, 2015 12:07:55 AM AKDT, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote:
>Personally? I don't think there's anything there's anything that
>justifies his reactions and behavior.
>
>He wrote some semi useful code, he didn't discover the missing link,
>sequence the genome, or cure Ebola.
>
>F*%k 'em.
>
>There's enough cases of over-inflated self importance in the world.
>
>On April 3, 2015 11:59:53 PM AKDT, Jon Auer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>It's more than just OIDs, adding device support involves a fair amount
>>of
>>fiddly little things. Finding/cropping icon, regex to match the
>>OS/device
>>type to handle it correctly, logic to handle the device-specific
>>things,
>>logic to work around whatever they broke in the MIB (remember when
>>Cambium
>>returned strings instead of ints for some counters?). Then more
>>testing.
>>
>>That's what makes Observium more useful out of the box than something
>>like
>>Cacti where you're adding OIDs onesey twosey to device templates.
>>
>>I think a big part of his reaction is, if you watch IRC, for the past
>>few
>>months to years there have been people asking for WISP features and
>>pretty
>>much nobody in a place to write code to do it. My guess is he is time
>>constrained and would rather work on other things (hence
>>non-responsiveness
>>to offers of money) combined with not wanting to deal with what could
>>be
>>perceived as self-entitled communication from some users.
>>
>>The hostile reaction to WISP gear:
>>CMMMicro is a switch that doesn't even use the switch MIB -> Work done
>>to
>>support WISP devices doesn't pay off in helping support other
>>Enterprise/Wireline devices.
>>
>>Cambium is extra special because they version the PMP MIB against OS
>>rev
>>instead of starting out with a well-designed MIB as spec and fixing OS
>>to
>>match. The easy way out is to ignore that and use the latest but what
>>happens when Cambium updates something? Bug reports from users on new
>>OS
>>complaining that something doesn't work. You update and now there's
>bug
>>reports from the users that want to stay on old OS for a while. The
>>hard
>>way? Handle every OS rev differently/code gardening responsibility?
>You
>>just can't win.
>>
>><I digress>
>>So, WISP gear, he doesn't need it and doesn't care. I need it and care
>>so I
>>write what I need. I may not  appreciate the politics of Observium but
>>I'm
>>being pragmatic. I contributed what little Cambium PMP device support
>>there
>>is in Observium currently and I have more devices I'd like to see
>>supported. If the time comes that my contributions are turned away
>I'll
>>look for another monitoring solution, not out of spite but because I
>>need
>>to monitor all the things.
>>
>>There may come a time when I move to LibreNMS. They seem to have
>>openness &
>>saying yes down but I want to see how they handle saying no to
>>extraneous
>>things/feature creep beyond monitoring metrics (e.g. if it were me,
>>allow/keep rancid integration but just say no to generalized IPAM).
>>You can't please everyone and who/how they choose to please will be
>>insightful.
>></I digress>
>>
>>On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>>
>>> Do we know why Adam blows up whenever people specify OIDs they want
>>to
>>> track? I've never bothered to figure it out myself. He made it seem
>>like
>>> hte OID was such a small part of everything that needed to be done.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> Mike Hammett
>>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From: *"Neil Lathwood" <[email protected]>
>>> *To: *[email protected]
>>> *Sent: *Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:08:23 PM
>>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] What Adam Armstrong of Observium thinks of
>>WISPS
>>>
>>> On 31 March 2015 at 19:04, WaveDirect <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah you should accept at least equipment donations :)  Some of us
>>may
>>>> have spares we can part with and after you are done sell them to
>>help buy
>>>> other products you want to support.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The donation of equipment is a huge ++++. It wouldn't be necessary
>to
>>send
>>> the kit anywhere just provide snmp access, that way we can see what
>>data is
>>> available and work on adding support.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>
>
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