I agree with Marc. However, one thing that continues to puzzle me is what
exactly the core developers do. It was my understanding that when Ethan announced the addition of some core developers that there would be more changes to the core.
I thought that meant that those core developers could

- evolve the Nagios core on their own based on their own judgments, agreement of other core developers and perhaps input from the community as appropriate

- accept patches as appropriate from the community and implement them

It was not my understanding that Ethan would continue to be the sole person who touched the core and made all decisions about the core. That is that if Ethan doesn't do it, it doesn't get done. So I'm confused.

Now, I totally appreciate and admire what I've seen getting done in terms of
smaller patches and particularly the Merlin/Ninja work, but that's not really core work. I know that the work that people like Andreas do is funded by Op5 and I don't
have a problem with that. I don't quite know where the time and possibly money would
come from to develop the core, but I agree it does need to happen. I've seen many good messages from Andreas about things that need to be redone/reworked in the
core and have wondered how they ever will get done. It's probably more work than members of the community would take on themselves. Perhaps I would have hoped that Nagios Enterprises might fund the core team to make those changes but maybe that's my imagination.

So I'm still a very happy Nagios user and like the work I see happening, I'm
just wishing there'd be more.

-Mark

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