On Jan 20, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Robin Sonefors <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2014-01-18 18:35, Sven Nierlein wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> Due to the recent actions by nagios inc >> (https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/news/new-project-name.html), i think its >> quite important to do a release as soon as possible to give people a chance >> to change. Is anyone aware of real show stoppers? The packages itself are >> tested and work quite well (besides some small >> issues). Anything else missing for a first release? > > Making releases is easy - deciding on what the release means is harder. > > I don't want to promise ABI or API stability for the whole tree the way > nagios did. In fact, I'm not too keen on promising any type of integration > point level stability at all above "best effort" or "tell us if you're > interested, and we'll help you fix them if we break them". > > The kind of broker module API provided by nagios is insane - if it's not > possible to refactor code without a new major release, you've fucked up. > > But we should do a release ASAP, yes. Agreed there should be a release ASAP, might as well use the attention to help promote the project and get things rolling. Dan
