[ixpmanager] A fundamental question. Who's actually writing/updating/supporting/enhancing the IXP Manager code?

[Dominik Bay]

On 10/08/2013 10:37 AM, Barry O'Donovan wrote:
> I do have have some reflections on contributions over the last few
> months also. IXP Manager is in the early stages of its open source life.
> Over the last few months we've built considerably on the installation
> documentation, the documentation of a ton of new and existing features
> and a community is starting to form.

Thanks for that Barry and Nick! I installed IXP Manager some days ago
and it was really smooth. I also saw that many pages of the
documentation have been touched over the last weeks which made me
confident that it is actually a working and proper documentation.
I'll need to get some more features configured properly and see how IXP
Manager works ...

> Particularly, I've noticed Rowan and Rob giving a lot of support on
> GitHub Issues and here on the list to Thorleif from their own
> experiences - taking pressure off Nick and I. We've closed a lot of pull
> requests from Rowan also. All three of these have been active opening
> issues which helps push the project along and tidy up loose ends.

... but once I'm confident I've gained knowledge about how IXP Manager
works I'll contribute on GitHub aswell, not with code but with help to
other users.

> In my own opinion, I think any IXP starting up / considering a CRM /
> portal / admin system would be nuts to not use IXP Manager. The goal now
> is to make using it as easy as possible - and to make sure they know
> this :D

It's definately a great tool, we could've handled or integrated many
things in our standard NMS/OSS ... but why should we. "Our" IXP is
planned as a seperate commercial entity anyway, so we're seperating it
from the beginning from our own tools. IXP Manager is helping a lot on
this task.

Best,
Dominik


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