[Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built binaries

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 16:41, Ton Voon wrote:
> Just wanted some opinions on a few things.
> 
> 1) What's the policy on new plugins? I'm working on check_cpu from the 
> New Plugins tracker on SF and - if I get it working - should it go into 
> contrib/ or plugins/? What makes a plugin go from contrib to the main 
> area?

Many people think of CPU usage and load together, with some
justification. I'm wondering if we might not want to integreat the CPU
checks into check_load? Thoughts?

> 3) There's been a thread in nagiosplug-help about pre-built binaries. 
> How about housing them on SF's web servers with a link to the platform 
> maintainers? Or a page of links to other people's web sites with a 
> disclaimer of first contacting the platform maintainers? My crystal 
> ball on this is a bit fuzzy.

For now, I don't feel like expanding the number of binaries in the
release too much. The release process is fairly cumbersome already. But
lets revisit this at some future point.

--
Karl