Re: PCP SourceForge

[Alan Hoyt <ahyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken McDonell wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 22:42 -0800, Michael Werner wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > Tell me how to get your pmda when it is ready.  Solaris packages
> > are next up in my queue.
> >
> > What is happening with the DB pmdas ?
> >    
> My understanding is that SGI has (internally) gone through all the
> necessary procedures to release this code under the GPL once a suitable
> gatekeeper has volunteered and on the understanding that SGI will
> provide no support for this code base (the products that were built
> around these particular PMDAs are long since moribund).
>
> In practical terms that probably means once we get organized on the
> outside, this is gated by Mark Goodwin's bandwidth to organize the
> package from the inside.
>
>  
Deja vu – I’ve heard this a few times over the past few years. I am not 
sure what you mean by a "suitable gatekeeper" though. When you consider 
for example how much Oracle has changed from Oracle 7 (which I believe 
was the target of the Oracle pmda) to Oracle 10g today - a massive 
rewrite of the pmda is probably required rather than just having someone 
act as a “gatekeeper”. I would imagine the other database pmda’s are in 
a similar mode of decay thus substantially diminishing the value of 
these agents. So, I am not really clear what your expectations are ... 
unless you are offering up your expertise as the gatekeeper – if so, you 
can have the "pcpaddons" sourceforge site. I merely set it up to 
facilitate and share the two pcp efforts I am currently working on.
Alan

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