[op5-users] Merlin/Ninja community

Fri Sep 25 17:45:19 CEST 2009

Martin,

Hey! Glad to hear it!

Moinmoin is good (a small learning curve, but awesome otherwise) and  
there's always your classic media wiki install... but you guys are  
smart folk, i'm sure you'll find something that'll do the job :)

And I can only assume the wiki will help new users get up and running,  
which will increase adoption of both projects.

Thanks,
Russell

On Sep 25, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Martin Svangren wrote:

> 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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