[heka] Any plans or thoughts on 1.0?

2015-04-23 Thread Tom Davis
The recent 0.9.2 release prompted me to wonder again about what might be planned for 1.0. The milestone on GitHub seems quite outdated, aside from the generic buffering for output plugins (which sounds great). Rob, Mike, do you guys have any big goals for 1.0? Any timeline? (I don't personally hav

Re: [heka] Any plans or thoughts on 1.0?

2015-04-24 Thread Rob Miller
Thanks for asking, I'm definitely overdue to provide an update. While some of you might want to know the details of what's going on, I'm sure most of you don't, so I'll provide two versions of the update: TL;DR VERSION: 1.0 will be released after generic buffering for all output plugins has la

Re: [heka] Any plans or thoughts on 1.0?

2015-04-24 Thread Tom Davis
Thanks a lot for the excruciating detail, I for one appreciated it. I have written quite a few Go- and Lua-based plugins and from that experience I would definitely welcome a more unified, event-based API. While the Go API is very "Go-ish" and open with its direct use of channels, it's not a detail

Re: [heka] Any plans or thoughts on 1.0?

2015-04-27 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 10:50:11 -0700 Rob Miller wrote: > My current thinking is that we'll let both of the APIs exist side by side for > a while. This would mean existing plugins could support buffering, albeit > with a performance hit, with only trivial code changes. Much improved > performance