1 Project: RRDtool
2 Author: Tobias Oetiker
3 Date: 2007-07-14
5 Status Report on RRDtool OSS Project
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8 RRDtool work for 2007 is sponored by these companies:
10 Gold Sponors:
12 * GroundWork Open Source - IT Monitoring & Network Solutions
13 www.groundworkopensource.com
15 * ZenOSS - Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
16 www.zenoss.com
18 Silver Sponsors:
20 * op5 - Systems and Network Monitoring
21 * Host Europe - World Class Internet Hosting & Services
22 * Contego Solutions - Managed Firewall, Managed VPN, and Secure Data Hosting
23 * ATC-Onlane - Automotive Remarketing
24 * terreActive - IT Security
26 Current Activities
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29 * Code Maintenance. Mails on the mailing-lists and directly to me indicate
30 compatibility issues or suggest little changes. These are often implemented
31 directly.
33 * Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac Maintenance. The on-line resources for
34 RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free.
36 * Bug Fixing. Bugs reported through the Trac bug report form are
37 dealt with within a few days. Most reported bugs are resolved within a
38 few days.
40 * Implementation 1.3 release
42 * Planning for 1.4 release
44 Accomplishments
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46 * RRDtool 1.3
48 * Migration form libart to Cairo/Pango is complete providing versatile
49 basis for graphical output.
51 - Improved stability
52 - PDF output with embeded TrueType fonts, equivalent to
53 what is seen in the standard PNG output.
54 - Anti-Aliasing can be disabled for 'rrdtool 1.0 look'
55 - Access to the standard font management system (fontconfig)
56 for access to a wide range of fonts.
57 - Inline markup, allowing font, color, size, boldness changes
58 in all text elements of the rrdtool output
60 Sample Output on http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/RRDtool13
62 * Performance Improvements. Working with contributors, the RRDtool
63 data access was switched to MMAP. Together with appropriate madvise
64 settings this lead to a massively log-update-performance, coupled with
65 better much better cache management.
67 See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/TuningRRD
69 RRDtool 1.3 beta will be released for LinuxWorld 2007.
71 * RRDtool 1.4
73 * Research into a portable dataformat for RRDtool has shown a promising
74 implementation strategy.
76 http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat
79 * RRDtool 1.2.20, 1.2.21, 1.2.22, 1.2.23 released
80 https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-announce/
82 Planned Activities
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85 * Release of RRDtool 1.3.0
87 * Implementation of RRDtool 1.4 with a targeted released at LISA 2007 in November.
89 The main feature of the 1.4 release will the portable data format.
91 * Maintenance of series 1.2.x, 1.3.x
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94 Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland
95 2007-07-14