The document discusses Zabbix in 2012 and future plans. It provides an overview of the Zabbix model, team, release of version 2.0, new release policy, and how users can help. The future focuses on quality, a plugin architecture, usability improvements, and horizontal scalability in upcoming versions. Milestones for 2012 include releasing 2.0.0 and 2.2.0 as well as training over 1,000 people and the Zabbix conference.

1. Zabbix in 2012
Where we are and future plans
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2. About me
Name: Alexei Vladishev
Email: alex@zabbix.com
Twitter: @avladishev
Home: www.zabbix.com
Author of Zabbix
Founder and CEO of Zabbix SIA
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3. What is all about
• Zabbix Model
• Zabbix Team
• Were is Zabbix 2.0?!
• New release policy
• How can Zabbix user help us?
• What's next?
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4. Zabbix Model
And it is important!
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5. Different models
• Possible models
• Enterprise and
Community versions
(open-core)
• True Open Source
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6. Zabbix is a True Open Source (Free)
Software with no “Enterprise” or
“Professional” versions
• Easy to adapt, no license fees
• Freedom to modify it
• Freedom to study how it works
• Commercial enterprise support is available
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7. If it is free, how do we
make a living then?
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8. Partners: closer to users
and customers
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9. Zabbix Team
People are more important than technology
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10. Who is making Zabbix?
• Currently we have 20 people in Riga office and 2
support people working remotely
• 1 document writer
• 2 Japanese speaking people (Kodai, Yumi)
• 6 open positions (4 PHP developers, 1 C developer,
1 Tester)
• Community effort: bug reports, testing, forums, etc
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11. Why team size is important?
It allows us to develop better
product much faster
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12. Zabbix in Japan
• WEB site is maintained in Japanese
www.zabbix.com/jp, community site: www.zabbix.jp
• Documentation is available in Japanese
• Twitter: #zabbix - 1252, #kodai74 – 767, #zabbix_jp –
307 followers
• Zabbix.com number of visitors in 2011: Japan is 3rd!
• We are doing all out best to support Zabbix in Japan
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13. Where is Zabbix 2.0!?
Well...
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14. Early 2010:
Alexei: “Zabbix 2.0 will be released in September 2010,
otherwise I'll eat my hat”
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15. Hats eaten
September 2010:
Alexei: “Zabbix 2.0 will be released in May 2011,
otherwise I'll eat my hat”
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16. Hats eaten
May 2011:
Alexei: “Zabbix 2.0 will be released in August 2011,
otherwise I'll eat my hat”
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17. Hats eaten
Zabbix Conference 2011, October 1:
Alexei: “No comments”
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18. I am very bad at making
predictions! Sorry.
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19. Why it happened?
• Too much focused on 1.8.x, we added many new
features to 1.8 branch
• No resources left for development of 2.0
• There is a huge difference between 1.8.0 and 1.8.8,
1082 bug fixes and new features!
• Zabbix 1.8.13 could be easily declared 2.0 :-)
• Bad approach “Let's add a new cool feature, break other
stuff, we will fix it later”
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20. So, when Zabbix 2.0.0 could
be released
• Stability by component
• Zabbix Server, Proxy and Agent are very stable
• Several known issues on front-end side (RC grade)
• No blocker issues
• Bug Tracking System: https://support.zabbix.com
• Filter: 2.0 scheduled blocker issues
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21. Current state of 2.0.0
• Zabbix 2.0.0RC3 (third release candidate) was released
on April 20, 2012
• We plan to make further RC releases as frequent as
possible
• Target release date for 2.0.0: May 2012, no promises! :)
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22. New release policy
It is all about delivering quality in time
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23. Development procedure
• All code changes
• Independently code reviewed
• Independently tested
• Separate branch created per each code change, merged
only if code reviewed and tested
svn co svn://svn.zabbix.com/branches/dev/ZBX-1234
• Regression testing
• Infrastructure for continuous integration is in place
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24. New Release Policy
• Release candidates (RC phase)
• String freeze phase for translators
• Fixed release period for major versions
• Released every 9 months starting from 2.2
• Minor versions
• No new features, bug fixing only
• Minor improvements could be included (usability, etc)
• No changes in database structure in minor releases
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25. Zero bug policy
• All bugs (stable, trunk) are treated with the highest
priority
• The bugs are fixed ASAP before anything else
• Eventually there will be no open bugs
• Trunk becomes very stable ready to be released any
time with RC phase
• As a start we must fix more bugs than we generate
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26. How can I help?
There are many ways
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27. You are not a developer
• Make translations
• Help other people in forums, IRC, mailing lists
• Report bugs
• Do pre-release testing of RC and beta releases
• Register and vote for a feature requests
• Tell us about your experience
• Share your knowledge: conferences, events
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28. Roadmap directions
Making Zabbix better each release
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29. General directions
• Quality, fully implement new development policies
• MVC for Zabbix GUI (modularity)
• Usability and easy-to-use, mostly about Zabbix GUI
• Plugin architecture for everything
• Horizontal scalability, HA and redundancy
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30. What's next?
There are many exciting things!
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31. Expected milestones in 2012
Release of Zabbix 2.0.0
Zabbix 2.2.0 Roadmap
More than 1000 people
trained by Zabbix
Zabbix Conference 2012
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32. WWW.ZABBIX.COM
Any questions?
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