1 Project: RRDtool
2 Author: Tobias Oetiker
3 Date: 2008-11-24
5 Status Report on RRDtool OSS Project
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8 RRDtool work for 2008 has been sponsored by these companies:
10 Gold Sponsors:
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 * Host Europe - World Class Internet Hosting & Services
21 * ATC-Onlane - Automotive Remarketing
22 * terreActive - IT Security
23 * Google Inc., USA
24 * Hitflip Media Trading GmbH, Germany
25 * op5 - Systems and Network Monitoring
26 * Lancope, USA
27 * Sidarion, Switzerland
29 Current Activities
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32 * Code Maintenance. Mails on the mailing-lists and directly to me indicate
33 compatibility issues or suggest little changes. These are often
34 implemented directly.
36 * Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac Maintenance. The on-line resources for
37 RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free.
39 * LISA Tutorials and Bofs on RRDtool
41 * Run-Up for RRDtool 1.4 release in 2009
43 * Fully automated and minimally tested nightly releases of the 1.2, 1.3 and
44 trunk code.
46 Accomplishments
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48 * RRDtool 1.3
50 * The new major version has been released in early summer, containing
51 major updates to both the database and the graphing layer.
53 * Subsequent releases of the 1.3.x series focused on stability, backward
54 compatibility and performance improvements.
56 * RRDtool 1.2.x
58 * Several minor stability and portability have been addressed with new
59 minor releases. The 1.2 series remains the most widely used version of
60 RRDtool since it is present in a wide variety of Linux distributions.
62 * Development of RRDtool 1.4
64 With the release of RRDtool 1.3 trunk was opened for work on RRDtool 1.4.
65 New features include:
67 - RRDcached for massive performance enhancements for large installations
68 with hundreds of thousands of rrd files.
70 - SQL Database access for RRDtool graph. This allows to use RRDtools
71 excellent graphing capabilities to be used on time series data acquired
72 directly from a SQL database (thought libdbi).
74 RRDtool 1.4 is in a stabilization phase now, prior to release of the first
75 release candidates.
77 Sponsorship 2008
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80 The 2009 Sponsorship program has been setup. If you have not signed up yet.
81 I would be thrilled to have you as a sponsor for the next year. Please be in
82 touch.
84 Planned Activities
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87 * Release of RRDtool 1.4.0
89 * Continued support for 1.2.x, 1.3.x
91 * Development of RRDtool 1.5
93 The major feature of 1.5 will be the portable data format that allows to
94 read and write rrd files across all platforms where rrdtool is supported.
95 Preliminary information about this feature can be found in.
97 http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat
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100 Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland
101 2008-11-24