This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 26: Long Time A-Comin'

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week we did more 1.8 work, and
got the copyright for the original OpenNMS 1.0 code.


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

Donald has been continuing his work on breaking up the webapp build.

- Unstable: SMS Poller

I spent a little time trying to mock up some code for the SMS poller
feature.

- Unstable: ACL UI Work

Massimiliano Dessì has been wrapping up his ACL UI work in his branch.

- Unstable: Alarm Cleanup

Dave modified the database to automatically remove alarms when the node
they are related to are deleted.

- Unstable: RANCID Updates

Rocco made some changes to the RANCID API code.


Copyright Changes
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In case you don't follow Tarus's blog, he announced some great news
that's been a long time coming: The OpenNMS Group has purchased the
rights to the original OpenNMS 1.0 code.

If you don't know the backstory, OpenNMS was first developed by
PlatformWorks, which became Oculan, who distributed appliances based on
the OpenNMS codebase.  OpenNMS was developed as an open-source platform,
but Oculan eventually stopped working on the OpenNMS code to focus on
the appliance exclusively.

The OpenNMS open-source project was then continued by Tarus Balog, who
grew the project into what you see today.  (All the dirty details are in
Tarus's post[1] if you're interested.)

What does that mean for you?  In the short term, not much.  Our first
order of business is trying to figure out where it makes sense to add
the classpath exception[2] to allow importing OpenNMS classes without
GPL infection -- for example, to be able to write a trouble-ticketer
plugin that talks to a proprietary ticketing system's Java API.

Step one is to clean up our horrible mishmash of copyright notices in
class files and such. =)

  1. http://tinyurl.com/opennms-1-0-copyright
  2. http://tinyurl.com/classpath-exception


SourceForge Community Choice Awards: OpenNMS is a Finalist - Vote Now!
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There's still time to vote for OpenNMS in the SourceForge Community
Choice Awards. If you haven't already, please vote for OpenNMS here:

  https://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/vote/?f=424

We put together a video[1] featuring some members of the OGP introducing
themselves and discussing the reasons why OpenNMS should win this award.
 Have a watch!

If you don't have ten minutes to spare, check out the one-minute
trailer[2] instead.

Either way, don't forget to vote for all of your favorite projects!

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96a8gyxEOSw&fmt=18
  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ev6GbZ8vE&fmt=18


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 OpenNMS-themed fireworks
display 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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