[op5-users] Merlin/Ninja community

[Martin Svangren]

Hi Russell,

We have discussed this here at op5 today, and we all agree that a wiki is a
great idea. Our developers are too busy coding to write documentation, but
at the same time we have people in the community begging to help out.
Needless to say, this is an opportunity we must take care of. We are happy
for the big community interest in Ninja and Merlin, and it would be a waste
if people lost interest because of lacking documentation.

I will be working on setting up a wiki for our open source projects, and it
should be up and running within a few days. It won't be Deki (I looked it up
and stopped reading at "C#" :) ), but we will have something up and running
soon.

Regards,

Martin

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Russell Jennings <russ at geekwhiz.com> wrote:

> Peter,
>
> I understand, and am glad you guys chose to get it running versus
> documenting. I think if theres a wiki in place you guys would be able
> to document less, and allow the community to fill in the gaps one way
> or another. Things like "getting started with merlin" are things that
> the community could develop easily enough. If you guys need any help
> getting one running or help maintaining (both trivial, i know, but
> still) i will gladly help. I'm partial to deki wiki, but anything of
> any sort would be something at least.
>
> How do you guys determine when something comes out of beta? like, when
> 6.2 became final, what happened? is it that it was tested a lot, or
> certain bugs were squashed? purely curious...
>
> Thanks,
> Russell
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Peter Östlin wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Russell Jennings
> > <russ at geekwhiz.com> wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I know there's probably not a TON of people interested in merlin /
> >> ninja, but they are both technologies that could really help
> >> compliment nagios and compete with other commercial solutions. But
> >> documentation for both is a little lacking... So io wondered if there
> >> is / could be/ should be some form of a wiki, or other collaborative
> >> community section, so that people can collab on install guides,
> >> introductions and what not. Maybe thats overkill and maybe a mailing
> >> list is enough, though for me i wish there was more. I don't really
> >> get excited about stuff that often, last thing i was really into was
> >> A at H, but i find both merlin and ninja to be interesting, worthwhile
> >> projects, and I'd like to help in whatever small ways I can. Being
> >> able to add to the merlin documentation is one idea i had, which a
> >> wiki or something of sorts would allow.
> >
> > We know the documentation for Ninja and Merlin is not exactly perfect.
> > The main focus for the last few month have been to get merlin and
> > ninja up and running on op5 systems. Since they now play well on our
> > systems we will spend more time on 'vanilla Nagios' installs. This
> > should mean easier installation and better documentation sometime time
> > soon.
> >
> > Anyway, since we really appreciate all input we get from you and other
> > users a wiki or some other solution for sharing information might be a
> > good idea.
> >
> >> Also, is there a reason the link on the website is 6.2 beta 2? is
> >> there a newer version that would be better? I use it, it works, just
> >> curious is all.
> >
> > We (Andreas actually) have done some work on merlin the last couple of
> > days. This have resulted in a new release, merlin-0.6.4. You can get
> > it directly from our git repo at:
> > http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=summary . Try the
> > 'snapshot' link if you want a tarball. The tarball link you mention is
> > outdated, I will fix that as soon as I get admin rights for the web.
> >
> >
> > /Peter Östlin
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