Hi all, I would like to use the opportunity and wish all of you the very best for the holiday season and the new year!
Rsyslog has seen an area of tremendous growth in 2009. Not only could we add many enterprise (and other) features, we also saw more and more Linux distributions switching to rsyslog as the default syslogd. All large distributions (except Suse) either today use rsyslog or will do so in the next future! This is very good news. Also good news is that the community is growing. There are more people than ever that help others on the mailing list, and some begin to regularly show up in the support forums on the web. We had some request for help with new features from "third parties", which will hopefully manifest in some good announcements in 2010. Also, we saw our first commercial sponsorships, which was a great relief to me, showing that the enterprise space is also moving into our directions. Of course, there is lots left to do. With growing community help, I am very positive 2010 will be a great year as well. A stats engine plus - finally - a new config format is on my "schedule" for 2010 and I guess a lot of new features will also come in. I promise to keep up maintaining and enhancing the project. Feature-wise, I guess, 2010 will have fewer additions than we saw in 2009, simply because there are already so many features and getting them used turns out to be a more important focus than adding "just that extra bell and whistle". Getting them used means more testing (thanks to all who reported bugs!), better doc and tutorials and, to re-iterate, a more usable config syntax. But, as usual, I may end up many more new features than I now envision ;) I am sure that 2010 will be as exciting for the rsyslog community as 2009 was. My sincere thanks to everyone who helped make that happen. Writing some software is one thing - thorough testing, bug reporting, and help to users is another three ;) The community help is very important to get that part done, so that I can focus on enhancing and improving the code itself. Once again for all the help in this regard! Oh, yes, in case you wonder why I write all this on December, 22nd: I'll be heading to my holiday vacation tomorrow morning and will probably not be online until early January. So I need to be a bit early ;) My warmest regards and thanks, Rainer _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
