[collectd] [RFC] virt2: a rewrite of the virt plugin

[Francesco Romani]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Florian Forster" <ff at octo.it>
> To: "Francesco Romani" <fromani at redhat.com>
> Cc: collectd at verplant.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2016 6:42:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [collectd] [RFC] virt2: a rewrite of the virt plugin
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Francesco,
> 
> Thank you for reaching out! I think a rewrite is probably better than adding
> a plugin doing the same as another, existing plugin – that will confuse
> users and increased our maintenance burden. However, this would require that
> the observable behavior stays the same: same config options and the same
> metric names, primarily. 

Hi Florian!
Those requirements are fine by me.
We definitely can keep the same config options, and we are fine with the existing
metric names.

> I'm happy to review a design document if you have one – that makes it much
> easier to understand pull requests and expedites pull requests.

I'll make sure to provide such document shortly before, worst case together, with
my pull request.

Thanks for the feedback,


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Francesco Romani
Red Hat Engineering Virtualization R & D
Phone: 8261328
IRC: fromani