Minutes from 2020-05-15

Attendees: Borja, Jabir, Krzysztof, kwiatrox, mkobyli, mmilews, Nikolay, octo, Piotr

collectd 5.11.1 date

• Only one fix in the 5.11 branch, #3351. Postponing to next meeting.

Interns!

• Barometer project will have summer interns, starting in June. They will be working on automated functional tests.

Go plugins

• [octo] Bootstrap repository at https://github.com/octo/go-plugins. Will be moved to the collectd organization shortly.
• [Nikolay] CERN has many Python plugins. Is there interest?
• [octo] Yes, prefer to move them to a separate "python-plugins" repository.

Issue grooming session

1. ntpd plugin: private mode (7) is now deprecated #932
   • NTPd deprecated "mode 7" which is no longer enabled server side by default.
   • Recommendation is to use "mode 6", which is standardized.
   • "mode 6" is human readable, so parser needs to be rewritten.

   → flaged as bug (was feature request), left open, low priority

2. Feature Request: need for self monitoring plugin (collectd getting metrics from itself) #849
   • Provide metrics about collectd's own operation
   • Nice to have.
   • FR has been open for ~5 years without movement.

   → Pinged the issue and set the "Waiting for response – 1st time" label.

3. nginx plugin: support several instances #780
   • Offer to review a PR was not picked up in ~4 years.

   → Closed due to inactivity

4. curl enhancement #614
   • User wants to match depending on a value on the preceding line.
   • Renamed to "curl plugin: Enable multi-line matching."

   → Provided work around and closed.

5. Allow includes from within <Plugin> scope #476
   • Offer to review a PR was not picked up in ~4 years.

   → Closed due to inactivity