From 0c221ef1c79177e096fef4f232aa7f0c07aaad23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oetiker Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:45:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] created status report 2009 git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/trunk@1978 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- status/2009-11-19.txt | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 105 insertions(+) create mode 100644 status/2009-11-19.txt diff --git a/status/2009-11-19.txt b/status/2009-11-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b30c3f67 --- /dev/null +++ b/status/2009-11-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +Status Report on the RRDtool OSS Project +======================================== +Author: Tobias Oetiker +Date: 2008-11-19 +$Id$ + + +Accomplishments +--------------- + +* RRDtool 1.4 + + * After a long rc periode. The new major version of RRDtool has been + released in October. It featueres RRDcached. + + * RRDcached is a corner stone in the quest for even better performance. It + works by caching updates and then applying them in bulk to the + individual rrd files. This cuts away a lot of the overhead associated + with accessing RRD files for individual updates. + + RRDcached was the first standalone component of RRDtool, developed + without code contributions from me. It is based on a concept paper that + has been sitting in the rrdtool wiki for quite some time and lots of + ideas from the two main developers Florian Forster and Kevin Brintnall. + + For me this caused a shift towards more work on the developers + mailinglist and in integrating patches. + + * A host of other smaller features was also added in the 1.4 release, like + massively improved memory efficiency for restore operations, additional + graphing functions and the ability to directly pull data into graphs + from a classical database via libdbi. + +* RRDtool 1.3.x was until October the current release. It saw several + revisions, mostly for bugfixes and performance improvements. + +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. + +* Thanks to a developer account on the opencsw.org infrastructure I am now + in a position to debug solaris issues directly and have done so for the + 1.4 release. + +* Mailing-list, Web-server, Trac maintenance. The on-line resources + for RRDtool are kept up-to-date, in working order and spam free. + +* Two tutorials on RRDtool at LISA 2009 (conference on + Large Installation System Administration, Nov 2009, Baltimore, U.S.) + +Planned Activities +------------------ + +* Continued support for 1.2.x, 1.3.x + +* Development of RRDtool 1.5 + + 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 + + http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat + + For rrdcached an authentication, authorization and encryption facility is + envisioned. Allowing to use rrdcacheds abilities for remote logging in a + wider network context. + + Eventually RRDcached should provide full RRDtool functionality for remote + access, including graph and updatev functions. + +Sponsorship 2010 +---------------- + +The 2010 sponsorship program has been setup. If you have not signed up +yet, I would be thrilled to have you back as sponsor for the next year. +Please get in touch. + +In 2009, 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: + +* Digicomp Academy AG http://www.digicomp.ch +* Openlane Inc. http://www.openlane.com +* terreActive AG http://www.terreactive.ch +* Host Europe http://www.hosteurope.de +* Sidarion http://www.sidarion.ch +* Contego Solutions LLC http://www.contego.net +* Hitflip Media Trading GmbH http://www.hitflip.de +* Reflected Networks, Inc http://www.reflected.net +* Chinavasion Wholesale Ltd http://www.chinavasion.com + +-- +Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland +2008-11-24 -- 2.30.2