Self-Introduction: Jean-Luc Fontaine

[Jean-Luc Fontaine]

- Full legal name: Jean-Luc FONTAINE

- Country, City: Le Haillan, France
   (Le Haillan is a small city near Bordeaux, where they make excellent 
   wines, I must say ;-)

- Profession: MIS

- Company: CERTIA (a computing regional center for the French Social 
Security)

- Goals in the Fedora Project
   - Which packages do you want to see published?
   moodss, a modular monitoring application (GUI and daemon, 
http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss/) which in turn requires blt (graph 
widgets, http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/blt/files) and tktable 
(table widget, http://tktable.sourceforge.net/) (I'd take care of all those)
   - Do you want to do QA?
   Yes, but after I am somewhat done with my TODO list for moodss
   - Anything else special?
   If you have any ideas about new modules for moodss, especially for 
Linux, I'd be glad to work on them.

- Historical qualifications
   - What other projects have you worked on in the past?
   tclperl (running Perl code from Tcl), tclpython (running Python code 
from Tcl), stooop (OO programming in Tcl), ...
   - What computer languages and other skills do you know?
   C, C++, Perl, Python, network monitoring with SNMP, Linux 
administration, Windows servers administration even...
   - Why should we trust you?
   Because I am a nice guy: just look at my picture at 
http://jfontain.free.fr/ ... More seriously, I have been using and 
enjoying Linux since 1993, and I wanted to give back, so I started to 
work steadily on system/database/network management free software from 
1997. Very recently, my main software project made it in "The Art of 
UNIX Programming" book by Eric S. Raymond (more information on reviews, 
users experiences, ... at http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss/).

- GPG KEYID and fingerprint:

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      Key fingerprint = 7AAD 7273 49B0 6A31 1226  28CB 906F CC32 F713 D6A4
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I am looking forward to contributing,

Best regards,

Jean-Luc



PS: moodss blurb:

Moodss 17.11 has just been released. Moodss is a modular multi-platform 
monitoring application, which supports operating systems (Linux, UNIX, 
Windows, ...), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB2, ODBC, ...), networking 
(SNMP, Apache, ...), and any device or process for which a module can be 
developed (in a scripting or compiled language: Tcl, Python, Perl, C).
A very intuitive GUI with full drag'n'drop support allows the 
construction of powerful dashboards with graphs, pie charts, ..., such 
as one which would use the cpustats, memstats, apache and MySQL myhealth 
modules to monitor a busy dynamic web server.
Proactive monitoring is achieved via a thorough thresholds 
functionality, including warning by multiple emails, user defined 
scripts, and an included daemon for background monitoring.
Finally, on top of real-time monitoring, any part of the visible data 
can be archived in a SQL database (MySQL, ODBC or SQLite) by both the 
GUI and daemon applications, so that, for example, complete history over 
time can be made available in web pages, common spreadsheet software, or 
presentations.
This GPL software is included in Suse Professional (rpms for Redhat also 
available on the author web page), used by IBM to monitor its Linux 
mainframe (see the "IBM e-server zSeries and S/390: System Management" 
redbook) and got an excellent review from Unix Review (further 
information with screenshots at http://jfontain.free.fr/moodss/).