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This Week in OpenNMS: Back in the Saddle Again

by Benjamin Reed: April 13, 2010

It’s time for This Week in OpenNMS. This week we return to catch up with what’s been going on in OpenNMS land. Please excuse the spotty coverage, I was in China since late October, and then I caught the flu while stuck on a plane for 25 hours straight (ugh!) coming back from Beijing, so I’ve been out of pocket until this week. I’m sick of being sick.
This last couple of weeks we did more work on reporting, did some build cleanups, worked on link and map adapter code, and looked into Git a bit more.

Project Updates

• Stable: Current Release is 1.6.7
  1.6.7 is the current stable release, tagged October 5th. It adds a few small features. For a full list, see the bugzilla 1.6.7 milestone. This is a non-critical but recommended upgrade for anyone on OpenNMS versions older than 1.6.7.
• Unstable: Current Release is 1.7.7
  1.7.7 is the current unstable release, tagged October 5th. Since 1.7.6, there have been a ton of bugfixes, as well as a number of new features, including the DNS provisioning adapter, mobile sequence monitor, and the map adapter. A 1.7.x overview is available in the release notes on the site.
• Unstable: Reporting Enhancements
  Jonathan Sartin continued working on his reporting enhancements. There has also been some discussion on the list about various attempts to integrate Jasper reporting into OpenNMS.
• Unstable: Build System Cleanups
  Matt has been doing some investigation into issues we’ve been having with the build system, including integrating the full build cleanly into eclipse since our addition of OSGi bits to the build.
• Unstable: Map and Link Updates
  Donald, Antonio, and Matt have been continuing work on the map adapter enhancements going on in a branch. In the last week another milestone was reached relating to monitoring the status of links, context menus for links in the map, and persisting maps.
• Unstable: Transitioning to a DVCS
  Matt and I also spent some more time with evaluating what needs to be done to transition to Git. We’re really collapsing under the pressure of branch management with SVN, it’s just too dang slow.

Upcoming Events

• January 25th-29th, 2010: OpenNMS training will be available through The OpenNMS Group at the OpenNMS training facility in Pittsboro, NC.

If you have anything to add to the events list, please let me know.

Until Next Week…

As always, if there’s anything you’d like me to talk about in a future TWiO, or you just have a comment, criticism, or cheap generic Tamiflu you’d like to share, don’t hesitiate to say hi.

Tags: build system, git, maps, reporting, training