Hi Tobias,
I think all of us here agree with you about the the alerting
subsystem. While we think we already offer some really cool alerting
features, we have been talking extensively about where we need to
take it to make it truly useful. The list of alerting enhancements,
as you can imagine, is quite long. We really want to focus
specifically on alerting for the next release. Therefore, we will be
working to refine the alerting roadmap promptly after the release of
the source code. The roadmap will be published as soon as we have it
available and we hope to solicit community feedback on it. So,
please look for it in the month of July.
There are no currently no plans to integrate a role manager in the
open source version. However, we do have an implementation of group-
role-based access control in the enterprise subscription, and the
open source HQ does share the same underpinnings that allows for
permission checking extensions. We will evaluate whether or not the
same model works for open source HQ or another model is better suited
for the community. We are definitely hoping for participation on
both feature design and implementation for new features.
I hope that answers your questions for now. Thanks for the
compliment on HQ!
Charles