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Kafka input and output plugin for Fluentd
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I want you to take over the plugin name "fluent-plugin-kafka" #1

Closed kiyoto closed 10 years ago

kiyoto commented 10 years ago

Hi @htgc,

My name is kiyoto, and I just saw your blog post about your Kafka plugin.

First and away, thanks for the contribution! Also, sorry about my prototype plugin (which I wrote at one of those hack day events last year) taking up the plugin name.

Here is something I want to suggest: I would like to deprecate my project and have you take over "fluent-plugin-kakfa" with your fluent-plugin-kafka-poseidon codebase.

There are a couple of reasons for this:

  1. I don't use Kafka day to day, and it's unrealistic for me to stay up to date with its API. So, I would rather have someone else maintain the "de facto" Kafka output/input plugins.
  2. My day (and night!) job is not programming but developer marketing.
  3. I want to stop the proliferation of "similar but slightly different" plugins. This has already become quite an issue with filter/tail plugins, and I don't want the same thing to happen with Kafka.

Let me know what you think! If you are willing to take over the name "fluent-plugin-kafka", all we will need to do is:

  1. Announce on my fluent-plugin-kafka repo that it is going away and will be taken over by you.
  2. Kill my gem on rubygems by yanking all versions.
  3. You update your repo to fluent-plugin-kafka on Github
  4. You release your gem to fluent-plugin-kafka
  5. Now you are the developer and maintainer of fluent-plugin-kafka!
  6. I will link my old repo to your new repo.

Again, thanks for the great work!

htgc commented 10 years ago

Thanks @kiyoto! I agree with you. I'll go for it!

kiyoto commented 10 years ago

Hi @htgc,

  1. I already announced on my repo that my version is going away.
  2. I already yanked my gem on Rubygems.

So please go ahead and push your version with the name fluent-plugin-kafka. Once that is done, please update me on this Issue thread.

Thanks!

htgc commented 10 years ago

Hi @kiyoto, Thank you for your support! I renamed my repository name and already pushed it.

Many thanks!!