This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 23: Inching Ever Closer

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week, we've continued work on 
what will become OpenNMS 1.8.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.5

1.6.5 is the current stable release, released May 16th.  It fixes a
number of bugs, and adds a few features.  For a full list, see the
bugzilla 1.6.5 milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended
upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.5.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-165

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.4

1.7.4 is the current unstable release, released May 3rd.  Since 1.7.3,
more work has gone on in the Provisiond code, as well as ACLs, RANCID
reports, thresholding fixes, enabling maps by default, and an entirely
new way of creating the OpenNMS database under the covers.  A 1.7.x
overview is available in the release notes on the site.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-17x

- Unstable: ACL UI Work

Massimiliano Dessì has continued working on the ACL/Custom View UI 
webapp.  Hopefully this will be finished up before 1.8 goes final, but 
if not, it will probably be included in a later 1.8.x release.

- Unstable: Bug Fixes

I spent most of the week going through the backlog of bugs for 1.6 and 
fixing what I can.  I ended up fixing some bugs opened as far back as 3 
years ago.  ;)  So please!  Open bugs, even if they're low priority. 
They will get looked at eventually. ;)

- Unstable: JICMP Port to JNA

We have an upcoming project involving native support for interacting 
with serial devices, and we're planning on using RXTX to do it.  One 
problem with RXTX is that it has a native component, and is a bit of a 
trick to distribute as-is.  Matt has been experimenting with porting 
JICMP to use JNA, as a test for implementing it in RXTX for the future 
to ease platform support.

- Unstable: Web Application Build System Cleanups

One of the banes of doing OpenNMS development is how long a full build 
takes.  Some of that comes from our build system having been slowly 
converted from a huge monolithic ant-based codebase into smaller 
modules, built using maven.  Since the dashboard is made with GWT, it 
has to do some code generation, and right now it is run as part of the 
monolithic "opennms-webapp" module, even though the dashboard code 
changes rarely.

Donald has been working in a branch to chop up the webapp module into 
smaller, more manageable pieces, which will facilitate turning 
less-often-changed parts of the build off for common usage.

- Unstable: JDBC Monitor

Jason Aras made more progress this week on his JDBC monitor, which will 
let you evaluate full SQL queries for monitoring and data collection.


Upcoming Events
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August 12, 2009: Tarus will be giving a talk at OpenSourceWorld: DM4:
The Open Source Management Stack.

    http://tinyurl.com/open-source-network-stack

September 21st-25th, 2009: OpenNMS training will be available through
The OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

For more information on training, go to:
    http://www.opennms.com/training.html

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.


Until Next Week
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As always, if there's anything you'd like me to talk about in a future
TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or SNMP haikus you'd like 
to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.  Also, we've still got room for 
more Order of the Blue Polo members if you'd like to send your own 
testimonial. (Of course you would!)

    http://www.opennms.org/index.php/OBP



-- 
Benjamin Reed
The OpenNMS Group
http://www.opennms.org/


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