[rtg] rtg status?

[Adrian Chadd]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, bill fumerola wrote:

> which was always my concern and why i tried not to fork the project.
> unfortunately, the owners never kept up on dispensing commit privs within
> the SF project so i suppose there's no time like the present.

I hate the idea of forking any project (including the one I'm heavily
involved in) but here seems a prime case where the user contribution
outstripped the active developer time.

> given that cacti has used RTG as a code base for their poller, it might
> be worth it to check out what they've done or form a combined project.

OK.

> forwarding porting the y!rtg code is not something i have time for now,
> but taking out parts of it piecemeal would probably be easier than porting
> the whole patch -- some of the features have been overcome by events.

Well, if people want it included, I'd like to hope that they'll submit
patches for the bits that are relevant to them.

Various people have indicated they've extended various bits of RTG
into interesting directions. I'm hoping that a few of them will step up
and work at merging their changes into the SVN trunk so everyone can
benefit. 

I'd like to then hope that an improved, stable tree can be handed back
to the current project maintainers to include in the official offering.

If not, then well, I guess the users have spoken. I'm just acting
as a gatekeeper/housekeeper here. :)



Adrian