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-Project: RRDtool
+Status Report on the RRDtool OSS Project
+========================================
Author: Tobias Oetiker
Date: 2008-11-24
+$Id$
-Status Report on RRDtool OSS Project
-====================================
-
-RRDtool work for 2008 has been sponsored by these companies:
-
-Gold Sponsors:
-
-* GroundWork Open Source - IT Monitoring & Network Solutions
- www.groundworkopensource.com
-
-* ZenOSS - Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
- www.zenoss.com
-
-Silver Sponsors:
-
-* Host Europe - World Class Internet Hosting & Services
-* ATC-Onlane - Automotive Remarketing
-* terreActive - IT Security
-* Google Inc., USA
-* Hitflip Media Trading GmbH, Germany
-* op5 - Systems and Network Monitoring
-* Lancope, USA
-* Sidarion, Switzerland
-
-Current Activities
-------------------
-
-* Code Maintenance. Mails on the mailing-lists and directly to me indicate
- compatibility issues or suggest little changes. These are often
- implemented directly.
-
-* Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac Maintenance. The on-line resources for
- RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free.
-
-* LISA Tutorials and Bofs on RRDtool
-
-* Run-Up for RRDtool 1.4 release in 2009
-
-* Fully automated and minimally tested nightly releases of the 1.2, 1.3 and
- trunk code.
Accomplishments
---------------
+
* RRDtool 1.3
* The new major version has been released in early summer, containing
* RRDtool 1.2.x
- * Several minor stability and portability have been addressed with new
- minor releases. The 1.2 series remains the most widely used version of
- RRDtool since it is present in a wide variety of Linux distributions.
+ * Several minor stability and portability issues have been addressed
+ with new minor releases. The 1.2 series remains the most widely
+ used version of RRDtool since it is present in a wide variety of
+ Linux distributions.
* Development of RRDtool 1.4
With the release of RRDtool 1.3 trunk was opened for work on RRDtool 1.4.
New features include:
- - RRDcached for massive performance enhancements for large installations
- with hundreds of thousands of rrd files.
+ - RRDcached aiming at massive performance enhancements for large
+ installations with hundreds of thousands of RRD files.
- - SQL Database access for RRDtool graph. This allows to use RRDtools
- excellent graphing capabilities to be used on time series data acquired
- directly from a SQL database (thought libdbi).
+ - SQL database access for RRDtool graph. This allows to use RRDtool's
+ excellent graphing capabilities on time series data
+ acquired directly from a SQL database (through libdbi).
- RRDtool 1.4 is in a stabilization phase now, prior to release of the first
- release candidates.
+ RRDtool 1.4 is in a stabilization phase now, prior to release of the
+ first release candidates in early 2009.
-Sponsorship 2008
----------------
-The 2009 Sponsorship program has been setup. If you have not signed up yet.
-I would be thrilled to have you as a sponsor for the next year. Please be in
-touch.
+Other Ongoing Activities
+------------------------
+
+* Code Maintenance: mails on the mailing-lists and directly to me
+ indicate compatibility issues or suggest little changes. These are
+ often implemented immediately.
+
+* Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac maintenance. The on-line resources
+ for RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free.
+
+* Several tutorials and Bofs on RRDtool at LISA 2009 (conference on
+ Large Installation System Administration, Nov 2008, San Diego, U.S.)
+
+* Run-up for RRDtool 1.4 release in 2009
+
+* Fully automated and minimally tested nightly releases of the 1.2, 1.3 and
+ trunk code.
+
Planned Activities
------------------
The major feature of 1.5 will be the portable data format that allows to
read and write rrd files across all platforms where rrdtool is supported.
- Preliminary information about this feature can be found in.
+ Preliminary information about this feature can be found in
- http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat
+ http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat
+
+
+Sponsorship 2009
+----------------
+
+The 2009 sponsorship program has been setup. If you have not signed up
+yet, I would be thrilled to have you as a sponsor for the next year.
+Please get in touch.
+
+In 2008, RRDtool has been sponsored by these companies:
+
+Gold Sponsors:
+
+* GroundWork Open Source - IT Monitoring & Network Solutions
+ www.groundworkopensource.com
+
+* ZenOSS - Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
+ www.zenoss.com
+
+Silver Sponsors:
+
+* Host Europe - World Class Internet Hosting & Services
+* ATC-Onlane - Automotive Remarketing
+* terreActive - IT Security
+* Google Inc., USA
+* Hitflip Media Trading GmbH, Germany
+* op5 - Systems and Network Monitoring
+* Lancope, USA
+* Sidarion, Switzerland
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Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland