Project: RRDtool
Author:  Tobias Oetiker
Date:    2007-07-14

Status Report on RRDtool OSS Project
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RRDtool work for 2007 is sponored by these companies:

Gold Sponors: 

* GroundWork Open Source - IT Monitoring & Network Solutions
  www.groundworkopensource.com

* ZenOSS - Open Source Enterprise Monitoring
  www.zenoss.com

Silver Sponsors:

* op5 - Systems and Network Monitoring 
* Host Europe - World Class Internet Hosting & Services
* Contego Solutions - Managed Firewall, Managed VPN, and Secure Data Hosting
* ATC-Onlane - Automotive Remarketing
* terreActive - IT Security

Current Activities
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* 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.

* Bug Fixing. Bugs reported through the Trac bug report form are
  dealt with within a few days. Most reported bugs are resolved within a
  few days.

* Implementation 1.3 release

* Planning for 1.4 release

Accomplishments
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* RRDtool 1.3

  * Migration form libart to Cairo/Pango is complete providing versatile
    basis for graphical output.

    - Improved stability
    - PDF output with embeded TrueType fonts, equivalent to
      what is seen in the standard PNG output.
    - Anti-Aliasing can be disabled for 'rrdtool 1.0 look'
    - Access to the standard font management system (fontconfig)
      for access to a wide range of fonts.
    - Inline markup, allowing font, color, size, boldness changes
      in all text elements of the rrdtool output

    Sample Output on http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/RRDtool13

  * Performance Improvements. Working with contributors, the RRDtool
    data access was switched to MMAP. Together with appropriate madvise
    settings this lead to a massively log-update-performance, coupled with
    better much better cache management.
    
    See http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/TuningRRD

  RRDtool 1.3 beta will be released for LinuxWorld 2007.

* RRDtool 1.4

  * Research into a portable dataformat for RRDtool has shown a promising
    implementation strategy. 

    http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool-trac/wiki/PortableRrdFormat


* RRDtool 1.2.20, 1.2.21, 1.2.22, 1.2.23 released
  https://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/rrd-announce/

Planned Activities
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* Release of RRDtool 1.3.0

* Implementation of RRDtool 1.4 with a targeted released at LISA 2007 in November.

  The main feature of the 1.4 release will the portable data format.

* Maintenance of series 1.2.x, 1.3.x

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Tobi Oetiker, Olten, Switzerland
2007-07-14