This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 40: Back in the Saddle Again

It's time for This Week in OpenNMS.  This week we return to catch up
with what's been going on in OpenNMS land.  Please excuse the spotty
coverage, I was in China since late October, and then I caught the flu
while stuck on a plane for 25 hours straight (ugh!) coming back from
Beijing, so I've been out of pocket until this week.  I'm sick of being
sick. ;)

This last couple of weeks we did more work on reporting, did some build
cleanups, worked on link and map adapter code, and looked into Git a bit
more.


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.7

1.6.7 is the current stable release, tagged October 5th.  It adds a few
small features.  For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.7 milestone.
This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS
versions older than 1.6.7.

     http://tinyurl.com/opennms-167

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.7

1.7.7 is the current unstable release, tagged October 5th.  Since 1.7.6,
there have been a ton of bugfixes, as well as a number of new features,
including the DNS provisioning adapter, mobile sequence monitor, and the
map adapter.  A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the
site.

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

- Unstable: Reporting Enhancements

Jonathan Sartin continued working on his reporting enhancements.  There
has also been some discussion on the list about various attempts to
integrate Jasper reporting into OpenNMS.

- Unstable: Build System Cleanups

Matt has been doing some investigation into issues we've been having
with the build system, including integrating the full build cleanly into
eclipse since our addition of OSGi bits to the build.

- Unstable: Map and Link Updates

Donald, Antonio, and Matt have been continuing work on the map adapter
enhancements going on in a branch.  In the last week another milestone
was reached relating to monitoring the status of links, context menus
for links in the map, and persisting maps.

  1. http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Link_Monitoring_Specification
  2. http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Link_Context_Menus_Specification
  3. http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Persisting_Maps_Specification

- Unstable: Transitioning to a DVCS

Matt and I also spent some more time with evaluating what needs to be
done to transition to Git.  We're really collapsing under the pressure
of branch management with SVN, it's just too dang slow.


Upcoming Events
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* January 1st-5th, 2010:
   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


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 cheap generic Tamiflu
you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


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

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