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

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