Please welcome the new Xymon v4 maintainer: J.C. Cleaver
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:13:17PM +0100, Henrik Størner wrote:
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
That's great news! Thanks Henrik and J.C.!
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
J.C.: If still possible, please mention in the 4.3.18 announcement that the release fixes the CVE-2015-1430 vulnerability, i.e. the acknowledge.c(gi) buffer overrun introduced in 4.3.4. (Thanks to Mark Felder for checking when this was introduced!)
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015, at 09:13, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
Excellent news! I look forward to continued progress of the best (and most underrated) monitoring tool around :-)
Really great News !!!
thanks & cheers
martinOn Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Hello all!
First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen, and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the project continues to thrive!
The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature development.
I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
Best Regards,
Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
On Tue, February 3, 2015 7:13 am, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Thanks Henrik & JC (and Sean). I've been watching and breaking those 'blinkenlights' for many moons now, thanks to your efforts.
Regards, Tim
From: Xymon [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] on behalf of J.C. Cleaver [cleaver at terabithia.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 9:23 AM To: Xymon mailinglist Subject: [Xymon] Hello... again!
Hello all!
First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen, and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the project continues to thrive!
The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature development.
I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
Best Regards,
Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
On Tue, February 3, 2015 7:13 am, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Congrats, JC. Best of luck!
On 02/03/2015 11:23 AM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Hello all!
First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen, and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the project continues to thrive!
The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature development.
I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
Best Regards,
Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
On Tue, February 3, 2015 7:13 am, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
-- Rich Smrcina
Congratulations JC, and Henrik! Awesome.
J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Hello all!
First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen, and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the project continues to thrive!
The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature development.
I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
Best Regards,
Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
On Tue, February 3, 2015 7:13 am, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
-- Sean MacGuire sean at maclawran.ca
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On 02/03/2015 12:23 PM, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Hello all!
First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen, and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the project continues to thrive!
The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature development.
I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
Best Regards,
Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
Congrats J.C. !!
Thanks so much to you and Henrik (and others) for all the hard work all these years!
Xymon has evolved into an excellent, scalable, open-source monitoring program.
I think this is great news, and I look forward to Xymon's future!
Good luck!
Bill
-- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line --
Don't forget -- EVERYONE MUST USE LSB directories NOW!!!!!
And SELINUX
:-D
Just joking, congrats on the new role JC
Best Regards,
Sean Clark
On 2/3/15, 12:23 PM, "J.C. Cleaver" <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
Hello all!
First off, I'd like to thank Henrik once again for his amazing work on the Xymon project. It's rare to see a monitoring system (or any sort of software) be able to stand the test of time the way bbgen and Hobbit/Xymon has. It's a testament to the sound architecture that Henrik has built, and the solid Big Brother concepts before it, that the project has succeeded and can scale flexibly to meet such a wide variety of needs.
For me, it's been a long journey! I can still remember my first exposure all those years ago to the "blinkenlights" web page -- set up by the grizzled Unix veteran at my university -- which provided a quick status-at-a-glance of all the important boxes throughout the campus network, and being fascinated by it. Having subsequently used BB, bbgen, and Hobbit/Xymon in various capacities as a system administrator and engineer throughout the years, I'm excited to be able to help ensure the project continues to thrive!
The first order of business will be the official 4.3.18 release, landing shortly, with the recent security CVE addressed. Following that, I envision a segment of important bugfixes and quality-of-life improvement submissions, followed by a period of stabilization and continued feature development.
I look forward to working with everyone in this new capacity!
Best Regards,
Japheth "J.C." Cleaver
On Tue, February 3, 2015 7:13 am, Henrik Størner wrote:
Hi,
it is my great pleasure to announce that Xymon now has a new maintainer of the version 4 (production) branch: J.C. Cleaver.
jc has been active in Xymon work for quite some time - he is perhaps best know for his work on the Xymon RPM packages available on terabithia.org. He has also been trying to feed a number of patches into the Xymon project, which hasn't worked as well as it should due to my being slow. So last year I suggested that we could split the work between us - jc taking over the version 4 branch, and myself working on the upcoming version 5.
And that is what we are now implementing, starting with the release of version 4.3.18 which jc will be announcing shortly.
Just to avoid any confusion: All of the Xymon "infrastructure" continues unchanged - the mailing list stays where it is, the xymon.com website will still be running, and the Sourceforge project stays remains the primary distribution site for new releases. I will also still be leading the developments in version 5 - hopefully I can start moving this forward, now that I don't have to attend so much to the production branch.
But this truly is a watedshed event for me. Xymon has been my "baby" since it all began in november 2002 - back when it was called "bbgen" and could only do a tiny bit of what Xymon is capable of today. My original announcement of version 1.0 is still online at http://support.bb4.com/bbd/archive/200211/msg00027.html ... Thanks to CSC giving me time to work on Xymon, it evolved into what is is today. But since I changed job in mid-2013 I have not been using Xymon in my daily job - and that means my time to work on Xymon has been quite limited. As a consequence, the development work has mostly been at a standstill.
It is the ultimate responsibility of an Open Source project lead to acknowledge when you must hand over the project to someone else. jc taking over the responsibility for version 4 is an important step along the way to make sure that Xymon will continue as a live project, and I am very grateful that he is willing to contribute time and effort to the project. And I know he has a lot of ideas and plans for making it even better.
So please welcome jc as the new head of Xymon version 4!
Best regards, Henrik
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon
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participants (11)
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beckert＠phys.ethz.ch
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cleaver＠terabithia.org
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feld＠feld.me
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henrik＠hswn.dk
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martin.flemming＠desy.de
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rsmrcina＠wi.rr.com
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sean.clark＠twcable.com
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sean＠maclawran.ca
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stef.coene＠docum.org
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tm＠freedom.com
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waa-hobbitml＠revpol.com