When I read Monty’s post on leaving this passage struck me the most.
The main reason for leaving was that I am not satisfied with the way the MySQL server has been developed, as can be seen on my previous blog post. In particular I would have like to see the server development to be moved to a true open development environment that would encourage outside participation and without any need of differentiation on the source code. Sun has been considering opening up the server development, but the pace has been too slow.
Couple of days ago I was working on a Linux Heartbeat v2 setup.
Upon inserting an XML snippet into the cib cib-adm started eating memory fast until the oom killer kicked in.
The environment was running a fairly old heartbeat-2.0.8 version so I upgraded to heartbeat-2.1.4-2.1 and there I got a nice warning that my XML sintax wasn’t correct.
With the risk of receiving a flood of comments pointing me to already existing tools here’s my go at what I as a sysadmin of often large deployments am looking for in Drupalland .
You suggest LDAP and syslog integration .. guess we already have that don’t we ?
But what I haven’t found yet ..
An rpm/deb repository of Drupal modules So we can do an apt-get install drupal-package , yes I know about Drush, but I want the files on my system to be in a package and clearly identified, it helps me keeping my system uncluttered.
Poken is the new gadget in town. Some people called it the future of social networking.
The idea of exchanging data at the click of a button , or less has been here fore ages. The problem always is that the tool needs to gain Critical Mass before it becomes useful.
I remember transferring my VCard from my Palm Pilot or Handspring Visor to other people’s Palm Pilot , or using different IrDA protocols to transfer my details between different phones, that worked fine, for the happy few that had similar devices. These days we transfer details over SMS’ messages or Bluetooth, but then they are stuck in the mobile phone, with the Palm I at least imported them in my PIM.
“This is the longest post I’ve ever seen that says “do not put your only copy of data on a site you do not pay for or trust.”
Weird, how you suddenly bump online into someone you haven’t heard from for over a decade, and even weirder how they still seem to have similar ideas to yours :-)
Luke is confused too ..
I’m clearly disappointed that someone who has been a high-profile user of Puppet but has never contributed much in the way of code (Ohloh claims 2 commits) would decide to start a whole new project rather than attempt to contribute to Puppet
Now , if you know me a bit you know that reinventing the wheel, or creating identical projects with no clear reasons is something I dislike .
In case you haven’t noticed them yet .. MySQL Proxy has a new release and moved it’s public repo to Launchpad.
(Still Launchpad isn’t open source yet .. a matter of time .. but in the meanwhile Jira and Confluence are sadly gaining adoption in the market)
In the devministration area there is a new Puppet module that automagically populates puppet managed machines in Zenoss , I’ve seen different people using Puppet to populate their Nagios configs, but adding Zenoss to the list is new.. so when will we see the Zabbix and Hyperic plugins ?
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