On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:38:27PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
> OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management
> platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a

Sorry, but I don't buy the "world's first ..." and as such I wouldn't
like to see it in the long description.

What does it means? First under what criteria?

Sounds more like an advertisement than a useful information for the
sysadm that need to choose whether to install it or not.

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On Thu, 08 Nov, 2007 at 05:57:25PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:38:27PM +0530, Varun Hiremath wrote:
> > OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management
> > platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a
>
> Sorry, but I don't buy the "world's first ..." and as such I wouldn't
> like to see it in the long description.
>
> What does it means? First under what criteria?
>
> Sounds more like an advertisement than a useful information for the
> sysadm that need to choose whether to install it or not.

I agree, that wasn't a very good description of the package. Sorry.
How about this one?

OpenNMS is a highly-customizable network management platform. It
provides three main functional areas:
* Service Polling: the system monitors services on the network and
reports on their "service level".
* Performance: data is collected from the remote systems via SNMP in
order to measure the performance of the network.
* Event Management and Notifications: OpenNMS includes a robust
notification system, including escalations, that can be generated by
network events.

Regards
Varun

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Hi,

On Thu, 08 Nov, 2007 at 07:37:35PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
>
> > OpenNMS is a highly-customizable network management platform. It
> > provides three main functional areas:
> > * Service Polling: the system monitors services on the network and
> > reports on their "service level".
> > * Performance: data is collected from the remote systems via SNMP in
> > order to measure the performance of the network.
> > * Event Management and Notifications: OpenNMS includes a robust
> > notification system, including escalations, that can be generated by
> > network events.
>
> much better.
> I'd like to see the programming language in the description, too.
> There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in
> a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can
> handle....

Sure, I shall include the language (java) in the description. Thanks
for the suggestion.

Regards
Varun

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> OpenNMS is a highly-customizable network management platform. It
> provides three main functional areas:
> * Service Polling: the system monitors services on the network and
> reports on their "service level".
> * Performance: data is collected from the remote systems via SNMP in
> order to measure the performance of the network.
> * Event Management and Notifications: OpenNMS includes a robust
> notification system, including escalations, that can be generated by
> network events.

much better.
I'd like to see the programming language in the description, too.
There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in
a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can
handle....


Cheers,

Bernd

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Bernd Zeimetz wrote:

> I'd like to see the programming language in the description, too.
> There're people who prefer not to use systems because they're written in
> a language/using a system which is bloated/buggy/broken/nothing they can
> handle....

That should be easily detectable by checking the dependencies or debtags.
There are already far too many descriptions that include the language of
development for no good reason.


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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote:

> That should be easily detectable by checking the dependencies or debtags.

Definitely.

> There are already far too many descriptions that include the language of
> development for no good reason.

+1 vote against mentioning the language in the description if there is
no explicite need for this information.

Kind regards

Andreas.

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