Future of KSysguard - removing remote monitoring

Andreas Hartmetz ahartmetz at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 15:51:36 GMT 2011


On Wednesday 09 March 2011 15:00:27 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, John Tapsell wrote:
> >   So unless anyone can talk me out of it now, I am going to remove the
> > 
> > ability to monitor remote hosts entirely
> 
> imho:
> 
> instead of eviscerating the application of the primary feature that makes
> it useful to a significant group of users of that application (sys
> admins), i'd suggest starting a new application (even if it shares a lot
> of the same code) if you feel you must go this route.
> 
> remote monitoring is _the_ reason for using ksysguard for many of its
> users. without that feature, it becomes completely and entirely useless.
> 
> it may also be possible that a clever refactoring wuld accomplish the
> desired simplification as well, though i assume you've looked at that
> possibility already.

I've looked at the code and it looks very clean and "nice" already.
Maybe those prospective contributors simply weren't up to par (yet)?




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