Edward,

Thanks for the quick response. I am very new to gossip, but have it behaving 
the way I want it to work, so if I may throw a few questions out at the start 
it would help me to see if I am going in the wrong direction or have missed 
something

1. ActiveGossipThread.init() schedules a number of commands. One of those 
commands is to send off the List of dead members, but since the random partner 
node to send to is pulled from that List, there is probably a good chance that 
node will be dead. I eliminated that command, preferring to let dead nodes come 
about on each node based on the timeout. Am I missing something here?

2. It may not make sense in the gossip world, but I want to send messages via 
https. It was my guess that the Transport interface was intended to be used so 
that different Transport implementations could be dropped into place. I added a 
sendMessage method to the interface, and created implementations for UDP, HTTP, 
HTTPS, and Thread(allows simple gossip testing in a single JVM). Is this a 
reasonable direction for gossip or is UDP the only accepted transport?

3. GossipCore.receive() will not add a member if it comes from a different 
cluster. Would it be reasonable to make that configurable so that filtering 
could be ignored if desired?

There are a few more things on my list but I will leave it at that for now.

Thanks,
John Naylor




> On Nov 4, 2016, at 12:21 PM, Edward Capriolo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Very very cool stuff. If you can share please let everyone know the use
> case!
> 
> If the bug/feature is small or obvious the process is this:
> 
> 1) File a jira issue:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GOSSIP/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel
> 2) Briefly discuss the problem/feature. Jira will give you a issue number
> like GOSSIP-99
> 3) Create a fork of https://github.com/apache/incubator-gossip and name
> your branch GOSSIP-99
> 4) Create the fix/feature and issue a Pull Request
> 4.1) squash commits, add tests make the PR as clean as possible
> 5) We review and merge
> 
> If you feel the change is complex and warrants larger up front discussion
> you can describe the feature/bug here. We can discuss the broad strokes and
> decide as a group what the next steps are.
> 
> It is important to note that we are a small group currently and would enjoy
> any conversation on list as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Edward
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 11:46 AM, John Naylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Good morning,
>> 
>> I’ve never worked on an open source project before, but I’ve been using
>> gossip for a project here at work. I have made some changes and wanted to
>> submit those back to the project, just not sure of the process.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> John Naylor

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