On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:46:11AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: > At the developers meeting last Feb. we talked about what to do with new module
user provided modules are a special kind of contribution, and my impression was that the idea was to create some sort of web based reference page that could be used for other users to locate them to avoid duplicated work (as it is done now for gmetric scripts, and just like apache does for their DSO). for an apache like repository of modules to work, we probably would need some more work into building tools that what has done for ganglia-config and the public headers though (like apxs), some more clear documentation (like the one that was part of the rejected proposals for the language tag) and some sort of web application directory like "http://modules.apache.org/";. of course that would also require some sort of infrastructure to use (like a server to host it) and we couldn't come out at the time with a solution for that. > and other types of contributions such as utility scripts. A new contrib/ > directory was created by hawson in March. that was I think unrelated with the debate about a module repository that we had at the summit and more linked to the immediate need of distributing useful user provided stuff like the SMF profiles needed to run ganglia in Solaris 10 as you can see by (also linked into the STATUS file) : http://www.mail-archive.com/ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03807.html > I don't think we should just be dumping anything that lands in contrib/ > into our builds. what would be the rationale for that? Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
