Sent from my HTC ----- Reply message ----- From: "Vincent Bernat" <bernat@luffy.cx> To: "Laszlo Budai" <laszlo.budai@outlook.com> Cc: "Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list" <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>, "Vithulan MV" <vithulanmv.12@cse.mrt.ac.lk> Subject: [syslog-ng] Finding feature owner for Kafka source project Date: Sat, May 21, 2016 23:58 ❦ 21 mai 2016 11:58 -0700, Laszlo Budai <laszlo.budai@outlook.com> :
As you mentioned we have Kafka destination driver written in C in syslog-ng incubator, so users can use it. It should not be a problem if a feature is available only in the syslog-ng incubator.
Well, it is because most users will never use it. I don't know why... maybe we should make it clear what is incubator.For me it contains two kind of features:1) experimental features that are not really tested, and maybe the code would also neee some polishment before merge into syslog-ng master2) well implemented features that are using some unstable dependencies> As the Kafka C client is stable enough, I don't see any problems in
integrating it to the syslog-ng master (just someone should create a pull request).
Good to know. That's not what you told me in August. I will fix the performance limitations and do a PR for master.I said that my plan is to keep the C kafka dst in incubator. Last year ;)But Kafka C lib seems to be a stable lib during the last 8-9 months which makes it possible to move forward from incubator. L.-- Make it right before you make it faster. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)