Nagios程序開發人員以及部分程序擴展開發人員日前宣布，他們將從Nagios項目源碼上，分支出一個新的開源項目，名字為ICINGA，因為目前的開發人員被Nagios的發展前景所困惑。
ICINGA項目是 由Michael Luebben、Hendrik Bäcker和Joerg Linge等人發起的，他們都是現有的Nagios項目社區委員會的成員，他們承諾，新的開源項目將完全兼容以前的Nagios應用程序及擴展功能。在新項目的網站上，他們是如此定義ICINGA的，這將是一個介于Nagios社區版和企業版間的產品。特別將致力于解決Nagios項目現在的問題，比如不能及時處理Nagios項目的bug、新功能不能及時添加等。還有在新的ICINGA項目中，將更好的實現數據庫集成方面的功能，標準化第三發應用程序的接口等。
新項目可望在5月底前完成第一個版本的代碼編寫工作，在今年十月底前完成第一個穩定版本。新項目將采用GPL授權。
Nagios forks to ICINGA
A group of Nagios application and extension developers， frustrated by the lack of a roadmap or progress for Nagios， the open source monitoring package， have created the ICINGA fork.
Nagios is widely used as a component of other monitoring and management packages and according to the "Why a fork?"posting on the new ICINGA site， a rift between the Nagios community andNagios Enterprises over the future development of Nagios has promptedthe launching of ICINGA. Slow integration of community patches was onelong standing problem， but according to ICINGA， community projects andcompanies who worked with Nagios were being asked to change their namesor transfer domains to Nagios Enterprises.
The team behind ICINGA， including Michael Luebben， Hendrik Bäcker and Joerg Linge， all members of the Nagios Community Board，are promising that ICINGA will be fully compatible with the precedingversion of Nagios. What they aim to do with ICINGA is to fix longstanding bugs， make improvements to database integration andstandardise the API for third party add ons. They expect to make thefirst release of ICINGA code by the end of May and a first stableversion is planned for the end of October. ICINGA will be licensedunder the GPL and developers and users are invited to become involved in the development.
According to the FAQ， ICINGA is a Zulu word meaning "it looks for"，"it browses" or "it examines".
