I Love Racktables! Here to another 10 Years!
*Wasim Ahmed*
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On 2/15/2017 9:09 PM, Luis Aguero wrote:
Thank you for all the hard work, we must keep doing it together!!!
2017-02-15 23:23 GMT-03:00 Ernest Shaffer <ernest.shaffer@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:ernest.shaffer@xxxxxxxxx>>:
Thank you so much for the hard work. This is a great project and
so many organizations don't even know they need it. It has help a
few places I've worked keep track of the infrastructure and issues.
Keep up the great work,
User and contributor.
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> On Feb 15, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Denis Ovsienko <denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:denis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> RackTables 0.14.3 was published on 15th of February 2007 and it
was the first release of RackTables as free (GPL) software. It has
been 10 years and 67 releases -- no doubt a milestone.
>
> 0.14.3 and 0.14.4 combined had about 200 downloads in total as
far as I remember. The previous release of RackTables (0.20.11)
had been the "latest stable" for a year and during that time it
had been downloaded more than 32 thousand times. SourceForge
download statistics can break it down into countries if you are
interested:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/racktables/files/stats/timeline
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/racktables/files/stats/timeline>
>
> I would like to take the opportunity and greet all past and
present users of this free software project. Having walked quite a
few miles in those shoes, I did and do think it is important for
systems and network administrators at large to have free software
for data centre resources management. It is great that today
RackTables isn't the only such software out there, so much the better.
>
> RackTables consists of small and large pieces of work done by
many people, let's together thank them all. Thanks to all those
users who cared to make bug reports. Also it is a good tradition
of this project that credit is given to the contributors on the
change log and the commit log. I guess this GitHub report lists
about 70% of all source code contributors:
https://github.com/RackTables/racktables/graphs/contributors
<https://github.com/RackTables/racktables/graphs/contributors>
>
> So we are quite a community and together we are stronger. This
project will hopefully continue to develop for as long as there
are good ideas on the wish list.
>
> On that note, for issue tracking RackTables uses MantisBT and it
has been recently upgraded to the latest version. Feel free to
look at https://bugs.racktables.org/ ;(sometimes it still takes a
Shift-reload for the new CSS to make it through). Aaron Dummer and
Arnaud Launay are the engineers that spend their time to maintain
RackTables project services like the issue tracker and the demo
site. GlobalSign sponsors the wildcard SSL certificate for
RackTables under their open source software support program.
>
> Aaron Dummer is also the treasurer of the project and RackTables
has been receiving miscellaneous donations for five years or so,
thanks to everyone who chipped in! To the best of my knowledge,
the balance should be OK to afford about few weeks of a freelancer
work (rate depending). I personally don't have a good idea what
the assignment could be but it seems to me community should be
involved in the decision making. So if you have an idea that can
be written down as a tech spec, feel free to throw it in and let
the community consider. Maybe a technical writer could improve the
project documentation, what do you think?
>
> Regarding current development, Alexey Andriyanov did release
management for most of the 0.20.x series since 2012 but now he
cannot contribute as much time anymore so let's thank him for the
work and keep in mind that some long-term planning has to be done
and the next roadmap produced. RackTables used to have one branch
for unstable code and another for bugfixes but the unstable branch
got clogged with unfinished work so right now there is only one
functional branch. Before it is clear how to resolve this best I
can accumulate things for 0.20.13 and make it. That's the
short-term plan.
>
> My own involvement with RackTables started with writing about
50% of the very first code base, Denis Yeldandi wrote the other
50% (and subsequently the current version of the
www.racktables.org <http://www.racktables.org> web-site). Since
the first release I contributed work every year, sometimes more
than other people and sometimes less. At the moment I work as a
network engineer in Custodian Data Centres and RackTables-related
development is one of the several things I do for the company.
Most of the small improvements I have made to RackTables in
2015-2016 were possible thanks to CustodianDC.
>
> Thanks for reading and have a nice day!
>
> --
> Denis Ovsienko
>
>
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