<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7651.59"> <TITLE>Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Forking the contrib section?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Thomas, I think your proposal is a good one. As a person who had patches caught in the contrib / no author trap I think it would help. I'm happy to volunteer time to help dig up old patches and get them submitted. It would be helpful if there was some mechanism to build a nagios-plugins-experimental package from the mob branch, of course without any guarantees about the behaviour of the result. Is that similar to what you were proposing with the "/contrib git submodule" comment? -Simon On 7/16/09 8:11 PM, "Thomas Guyot-Sionnest" <dermoth@aei.ca> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I was looking at some repository clone that included patches to /contrib > and that got me an idea. The policy right now is to encourage authors to > move away contrib plugins to Nagiosexchange. However many need the > Nagios-plugins tree to compile, and most lost their original authors. > Meanwhile some useful plugins in there get patches from time to time > that we don't really want to apply because we don't really want to > support that unsupported section. > > I'd like to fork /contrib to a separate git repository and add a "mob" > user (unrestricted check-in access to the "mob" branch) for people to > commit things, then we can do a short review from time to time and > merge changes from the mob branch. > > Think of this as a service to help the community maintaining these > plugins without any guarantee regarding the quality and safety of these > plugins from the Nagios-Plugins team. I believe that it would relieve us > of that plugins section and help the community getting patches in. > > /contrib could then become a git submodule that can be included for > compiling the plugins. > > Any comments or objections? > > - -- > Thomas > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <A HREF="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</A> > > iD8DBQFKX+vb6dZ+Kt5BchYRAmr0AJ4/tJWKBoRzU6tsfLbilWNjP0/kjQCgiFuk > n0H45WHiIEkKp3pA4od1M+k= > =AOcL > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: <A HREF="http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge">http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge</A> > _______________________________________________________ > Nagios Plugin Development Mailing List Nagiosplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Unsubscribe at <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-devel">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-devel</A> > ::: Please include plugins version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Simon Bennett Sr. Director of Product Management GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc. 139 Townsend Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107 415-992-4577 (direct) 415-947-0684 (fax) sbennett@gwos.com </BODY> </HTML>