[Nut-upsdev] Opening the 2.4 commit fest

[Charles Lepple]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> fellows,
>
> You can now commit to the trunk everything that is scheduled for 2.4
>
> For my part, the november month will be mostly dedicated to the following:
> - commit the USB "improved maintenance" code. I'm about to finish that
> one, which allows to extract USB info and generate the various USB
> related files (hotplug, udev and hal). so the end of that bothering
> era ^_^
> - complete & merge the upsdrv-info-struct branch
> - complete & merge the make-package branch
> - commit the PDUs support
> - some more update related to Eaton

One thing that was on the plate (but we haven't discussed much) is the
new configuration file format.

I prefer that we keep the new configuration file code out of 2.4,
since there are a lot of other changes on the TODO list, and we
haven't really discussed it much. Also, there is the problem of
transitioning people to the new format - since a lot of the NUT users
get NUT from a Linux distribution, it will get confusing unless we
have some way to support both file formats.

> We will then have some more update to do on:
> - the packaging/ files to be sync'ed,
> - the documentation (will be kept as plain text for 2.4 ; html postponed to 2.6)
>
> The remainder, until the -pre stage, will be:
> - the Powerman support (through the powerman driver) for more PDUs
> - the possible RRD integration into upslog

It would be nice to have native RRD support in upslog, but we may also
want to point people to collectd - the NUT support in collectd is very
easy to use, and collectd does a good job of monitoring other system
statistics at the same time.