This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 24: Pants Optional

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


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: Modularizing the Web Build

This week Donald did more work on chopping the webapp build system into
little tiny pieces.  Progress has been made (in a branch) but it's not
finished yet.

- Unstable: Code Cleanup

I've gone on a janitor kick this last week, and spent a ton of time
cleaning up old warnings in the code, fixing stuff to use generics, and
other tedious-but-nice-when-it's-finished work.  Some of it is in trunk,
but most of it has been going on in a branch.  I hope to merge it
sometime this week.

- Unstable: Monitor Updates

Jason Aras did a bit more work on his JDBC monitor, as well as a
refactoring of the HTTP and HTTPs plugins and a monitor that will let
you use the Bean Scripting Framework for creating custom monitors.

- Unstable: Provisiond Bugs

We've found some issues in the scheduling of provisiond threads.  One
was a Maven issue that gave us 2 different (incompatible) versions of
Apache MINA in the OpenNMS library directory.  With that fixed, we've
seen a few other issues with the new import architecture that we're
working through.  Donald and Matt did some work last week on figuring it
out, and I've been tinkering with it still this week.

- Unstable: RANCID Updates

A few more fixes have been made to the RANCID integration.  We are up to
release 0.96 of the full integration tarball on SourceForge.

- Unstable: ACL UI Work

It wouldn't be a TWiO without talking about Massimiliano Dessì's work on
a GUI for the ACL plumbing that has been implemented in OpenNMS.  Work
is still ongoing, but he's committing at a furious pace.

- Unstable: SMS API

Jeff started work on a low-level SMS API which we'll use for future SMS
integrations, in a branch.


SourceForge Community Choice Awards: OpenNMS is a Finalist - Vote Now!
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Thanks, everyone, for helping to nominate OpenNMS for the Community
Choice Awards!

Now that we are a finalist in the Best Tool for the Enterprise category,
it's time to vote:

  https://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/

As Tarus mentions in his blog (http://blogs.opennms.org/?p=986), they
asked us finalists to do a little extra and create a video talking about
the project and why we feel we should get your vote -- I mean, besides
the obvious reasons, like that our users are the best, most wonderful,
handsome, beautiful, and successful people in the IT and open-source
world, and obviously they deserve recognition for that...

*Ahem*, anyways, as I was saying, they asked us to do a video, the
results are up at YouTube:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96a8gyxEOSw&fmt=18

...or if you just want the funny bits, we've got a short trailer:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ev6GbZ8vE&fmt=18

Anyways, thanks again everyone for your nomination. All that's left is
to go back and vote on the finalists.  Good luck to everyone not in the
Best Tool for the Enterprise category! <grin>


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.


Bye for Now
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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 HOWTOs on rigging
SourceForge voting systems 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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