On 03/01/2010 04:19 PM, Sasc...@gfkl.com wrote:

That's true. I complained to Ethan about that about a year back too, and the action he took then was to make me and Ton core developers. This means Ethan doesn't have to look at all the patches, since me and Ton can do it instead. And we're doing just that, although some patches do slip through unnoticed. We're human. Remind us. If it's done without rancor neither me nor Ton or Ethan will bite your heads off. They're quite nearly as nice as I am really, but even the nicest will bite if pushed too far.

And well he should be. A president has no business not doing business. Since he appointed me and Ton core developers we have a more or less equal footing with regards to code as Ethan does.

That would be awesome indeed, even though it's a dream we probably won't ever live to see. I'll work on it though. It seems there are quite a few rather easily fixable issues on tracker.nagios.org (40, to be precise).

That's what we're striving for here too.

No they don't. All of the core is made up of ~64K lines of code. Other tools can be used by other products as well. Of those 64K lines of code, Ethan has written about 50K and random contributors (myself included) have taken care of the remaining 14K.

Well, it's a bit harsh to request that others do something for you without you wanting to take part of the work too but if that's a standpoint you can live with, then so be it.

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