Re: [Ganglia-developers] moving mod_multicpu out of ganglia to ganglia-modules-linux

[Bernard Li <be...@va...>]

Thanks Daniel!

Cheers,

Bernard

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Daniel Pocock <da...@po...> wrote:
>
>
> On 16/05/12 19:09, Bernard Li wrote:
>> Hi Daniel:
>>
>> I'd like to know whether the work you are doing can be migrated to GitHub:
>>
>> https://github.com/ganglia/gmond_c_modules
>>
>> I thought we all agreed to move our code repository to GitHub a little
>> over a year ago.  I'm not especially fond of having all these separate
>> projects spread all over the place.  Everything should be placed under
>> one roof (GitHub) as much as possible.
>>
>
> I still keep roughly half the things I do on Sourceforge, not having all
> the eggs in one basket, as the saying goes
>
> But it is a git repo (not Sourceforge SVN), so a move to github would be
> trivial and I don't have any problem doing that.  In particular, it
> makes sense having it under control of the `organisation' level access
> control that github offers now.
>
> I'll organise it later this week and send another email to confirm.
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernard
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Pocock <da...@po...> wrote:
>>> On 14/05/12 17:08, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 01:17:19PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The mod_multicpu code in the main ganglia repo is Linux-only, while most
>>>>> of the other modules are cross-platform
>>>>>
>>>> I think it might also work for cygwin but haven't really tried lately, if
>>>> that is the case though it will remove this functionality from cygwin for
>>>> no big gain IMHO.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just a few comments:
>>> - I think it may be good to have some (or maybe all?) modules as
>>> separate packages, especially if they are only for a single platform, as
>>> smaller packages are easier to release manage
>>> - the python modules seem to evolve faster than the C stuff, just as the
>>> web stuff has evolved quite a lot recently, Python code doesn't need any
>>> autotools integration either, so that stuff could also be a separate
>>> source tree, separate release cycles, etc
>>> - although I hammered together the gmond-linux package, 90% is other
>>> people's work, I believe I've done everything I can to credit people for
>>> that - but I'm also happy for other people to have commit access on that
>>> repository, Brad is also an admin there now and he can also grant access
>>> - given the correlation between Linux and Cygwin stuff, maybe
>>> ganglia-modules-linux can be renamed and can cover both platforms - or
>>> given the nature of git, it could be forked to create a
>>> ganglia-modules-cygwin?
>>>
>>>> Most of the python modules are linux specific though, so would guess your
>>>> comment was about native modules instead.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> The version in ganglia-modules-linux is based on the same code, with
>>>>> some small enhancements (using arrays instead of string comparisons)
>>>>>
>>>> instead of having a forked version, why not make multi-cpu portable instead?
>>>> and if you think your linux version is better, why not import it instead?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I've also implemented the same for Solaris (see
>>> http://gmod-solaris.sourceforge.net) - there is little in common.  In
>>> some ways I think the code is more readable if kept separate.
>>>
>>> I have no objection to contributing my mod_multicpu enhancements to the
>>> main project - the gmod-linux thing was started as a proof-of-concept
>>> for standalone module builds, I think it serves that purpose well and I
>>> only hope people use it as a starting point for similar activity.   It
>>> should not be seen as something I made up because I don't want to
>>> contribute 100% to the main project: rather, it should be seen as a mark
>>> of respect for the modular architecture of the project.
>>>
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