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

Karl DeBisschop karl at debisschop.net
Mon Mar 31 04:32:19 CEST 2003


On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 04:59, Voon, Ton wrote:
> The plugin dev guidelines do mention a few bits, but not in as much detail
> as you just have. I can look into updating them. 
> 
> I was thinking about a www project in the top level CVS to hold the web
> pages, where a make install will also put down all the dev guidelines. Is
> this a good idea?

how about doc, where html is a subdir of doc?

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Karl DeBisschop [SMTP:karl at debisschop.net]
> > Sent:	Sunday, March 30, 2003 4:31 AM
> > To:	NagiosPlug Devel
> > Subject:	Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built
> > binaries
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 22:36, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:41:47PM +0000, 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?
> > > > 
> > > 	Not sure of this one myself... Would have to ask one of the project
> > > admins this one...
> > 
> > Plugins move from contrib to main after:
> > 
> > 1) The standard command options are supported (--help, --version,
> > --timeout, --warning, --critical)
> > 
> > 2) It is determined to be not redundant (for instance, we would not at a
> > new version of check_disk just because someone had provide a plugin that
> > had perf checking - we would incorporate the features into an exisiting
> > plugin
> > 
> > 3) One of the developers has had the time to audit the code and declare
> > it ready for core.
> > 
> > 4) It should also follow code format guidelines, and use functions from
> > utils (perl or c or sh) rather than cooking it's own.
> > 
> > There is/was a description of this somewhere in the docs. I'll see if I
> > can find it sometime, but probobly not tonight.
> > 
> > --
> > Karl
> > 
> 
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