Interested in maintaining zabbix addon package

[Robin Roevens <robin.roevens@disroot.org>]

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Hi all

I'm Robin, living in Belgium and a daily administrator of Zabbix both
professionally and at home. I use linux on all my computers, mainly
openSUSE, and administer RHEL based linux servers as a profession. Used
Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake etc many many years ago..

I have been using IPFire also for many years now, coming from
Smoothwall and IPcop, first in a VM on my home server, currently on an
IPFire appliance from Lightning Wire, so evidently I like monitoring my
appliance using Zabbix.
Hence I wrote a Zabbix Template to monitor and alert on IPFire specific
metrics (https://github.com/RobinR1/zbx-template-ipfire) and had
recently added a suggestion in the IPFire wiki - zabbix addon page to
use my template.
In response to my edit, Alexander Koch added a notice to that page that
the current Zabbix IPFire addon was no longer maintained.

As an experienced user of both I may be interested in taking up the
role as package maintainer for the zabbix addon in IPFire. 
I created packages before using Suse's OBS but never officially
maintained ones, so this would be my first, and with a currently
'unknown' technology for me (Pakfire).

I started by reading the info available on the IPFire wiki and found
https://wiki.ipfire.org/devel/ipfire-2-x/addon-howto as, I think, the
most current documentation on how to build packages on IPFire 2.x.
Other Pakfire-related info seems to be mainly for IPFire 3.
The required build environment is currently building on my PC, so I
hope to start working on it soon.
However at the end of that document, the instructions as of how to
actually submit the package for inclusion in IPFire seems to be
missing.

So I will try to update the zabbix agent using this build env as soon
as it is ready, and for as far as I currently understand it, I will
then probably end up with changes in lfs/zabbix_agentd and
config/zabbix_agentd/, which I then just have to submit here as a patch
following the instructions on ipfire wiki about submitting patches?

Anyway, this was my introduction, and I hope I will be of some help in
this great project.

Regards
Robin 


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