Re: Status 4.0

[Martin Pala]

Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Seems like the gnu mail server was hit hard by the latest virus and
> worm attacks. I could not send this mail on friday but I'll try again
> today.
>
> With the latest status from Rory on the porting front, where he got
> monit to run on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and MacOS X (w/o ssl) I think it is
> realistic to aim for a release this week. What do others think?
>
> The following is an overview of the todo list before a release AFAIK.
>
> 0) Wrap up any remaining port issues
>   ---------------------------------
>   If Rory finds serious problems after more testing, it may be a
>   showstopper, otherwise it's not.
>
>   Responsible: rory
>
>
> 1) Fix line-number problems in the lexer
>   -------------------------------------
>   The sub-condition for the depend statement in the lexer must be
>   rewritten so it count line numbers correctly.
>
>   Responsible: hauk (or maybe Christian?)
>
>
> 2) Finalize documentation.
>   ------------------------------------------
>   Walk through (QA) the documentation files; monitrc, CHANGES.txt,
>   monit.pod, UPGRADE.txt and README and prepare for the release.
>
>   Responsible: hauk + all
>
>
> 3) Prepare and release
>   -------------------
>   QA everything, tag the release and notify the monit-general list,
>   freshmeat.net and address@hidden RPM and Solaris PKG should be
>   created after the release and uploaded to savannah.gnu.org.
>
>   Responsible: hauk, QA, CVS tagging, monit.tar.gz and notification
>   Responsible: Christian, Solaris PKG ?
>   Responsible: Rory, RPM and upload to savannah?
>  
>
> Proposal:
>
> - A new release should not include automatic html doc. generated with
>   doxygen. The html doc. adds lots of weight to the tar.gz file and I
>   suspect hardly anyone reads it.
+1

> FYI:
>
> I have worked with a presentation for monit this week, the purpose is
> twofold, 1) Provide and overview and introduction to monit 2) provide
> the presentation as a web-introduction for monit.
>
> I have exported the presentation as a set of slides for the web which
> can be linked from the monit homepage. To see a preview point your
> browser to:
>
>       http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/presentation/index.html
>
> The presentation is a draft and it's not finished and I VERY MUCH WANT
> FEEDBACK FROM YOU ON IT. Please use open office to read the
> presentation in CVS: monit/doc/presentation.sxi.
>
>  
I looked on the presentation, i think it is very good. Maybe we can show 
more monit's power, but we should keep it as simple as possible.

I'm back from vacation - i started to implement monitor/unmonitor 
actions which can be handed over through dependency. This will solve the 
problem of security modules such as checksum, permission, uid and gid as 
discussed on the list. I hope i will have it ready soon and it will be 
possible to ship it with 4.0 (if developers will agree).

I think we should release 4.0 only after extensive tests - i have 
problem with time this week, but i will try to do as much as possible.


Martin