This Week in OpenNMS: Season 1.6, Episode 44: Resolutions

It's time for This Week (Month?) in OpenNMS.  In the last month, we've
been pretty busy on a number of projects, including reporting and maps.
 My new year's resolution is to get back on track writing TWiO regularly. =)


Project Updates
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- Stable: Current Release is 1.6.8

1.6.8 is the current stable release, tagged December 10th.  It adds a
few small features and fixes a few bugs, as well as adding a new
web-based "easy installer" UI.  For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.8
milestone.  This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on
OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.8.

    http://tinyurl.com/opennms-168

- Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.8

1.7.8 is the current unstable release, tagged December 8th.  Since
1.7.7, there have been quite a few bug fixes.  A 1.7.x overview is
available in the release notes on the site.

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

- Unstable: Reporting

Jason Aras continued his work on a dynamic reporting engine.
Additionally, Jonathan Sartin has been working on the reporting
scheduling daemon some more.  See below for more on Jonathan's work.

- Unstable: Lots of Updates

I've been slack in doing TWiO, and there's been a ton of work going on
in unstable since the last post.


Git Move Complete!
------------------

The move to Git is complete, and went pretty smoothly. S VN has been
marked as read-only, and the new Git repository is available through
http://opennms.git.sourceforge.net/ (which provides a web interface).

Full instructions on working with the git repository are available in
the OpenNMS wiki:

  http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Developing_with_Git


Reporting API
-------------

Jonathan has finished up his work on the report scheduling API, and is
ready for code review.  Here's what he wrote to me about this new feature:

  I have just about completed the initial work on feature-report-api.
  Features of this branch are:

  The old availability reports can now be run on demand (as they always
  have been), or scheduled to run in the future (no more messing around
  with cron jobs outside of OpenNMS).  You can save these reports as
  well as mail them, and they can be downloaded on demand.

  There is an API in place now that should allow other report engines
  to use the framework that we've written (it was designed with BIRT
  and Jasper in mind).

  The beginnings of a unified XML config are there to allow report
  parameters to be entered via the webUI when the report is run (it
  only accepts integer, string and date parameters at the moment).
  Multiple report xsl can used to simultaneously support multiple
  languages.

  Next steps are to move the old reports into a new project that
  reflects the amended structure, and further tidying up of the old
  code.  Demands on my time permitting, this should be in an unstable
  release soon.

Upcoming Events
---------------

* January 25th-29th, 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

* February 19th-21st, 2010:
   OpenNMS will be attending the Southern California Linux Expo.
   Additionally, Tarus Balog will be the keynote speaker.

   For more information, go to:
     http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/
     http://tinyurl.com/opennms-scale-keynote

* May 6th-7th, 2010:
   The second annual OpenNMS Users Conference will be held in
   Frankfurt, Germany, thanks again to Nethinks.  The call for papers
   ends January 31st, if you are interested in presenting.

   For more information, go to:
     http://www.opennms-conference.info/
     http://www.opennms-conference.info/call-for-papers/

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


Until Next Week...
-------------------

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 UFO evidence that
explains my loss of time you'd like to share, don't hesitiate to say hi.


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

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