[rrd-developers] [RRDCacheD] Developing RRDCacheD as separate project (was: Authentication)

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Florian,

Today Florian Forster wrote:

> Hi Tobi,
>
> > I have the impression that you feel rather unhappy about some of my
> > design 'decisions' and opinions.
>
> I have to admit that, in fact, that was the trigger to propose the
> split and I probably wouldn't have done that out of thin air. Not
> because the proposition was made out of defiance, but because
> maintaining a separate project is a lot of work and my time is already
> limited as is.. And I feel very uncomfortable saying ?we should split it
> up, but I'm not doing it?.

ok

> > Because I will continue to reserve final say about goes and what does
> > not go in rrdtool, I suggested a fork, so that you could develop your
> > branch of the cached in the way you see fit.
>
> That's not the problem: In my opinion a ?monarchy? is the only way a
> free software project of this size can work reasonably well. What broke
> my patience was not that you made decisions I wouldn't have made, but
> that you didn't respond to my arguments.

sorry ... I was not trying to intentionally ignore you ...

> As I said before: A fork is out of question.
>
> > You could focus on the needs of collectd and develop the cache to be a
> > perfect match.
>
> How does collectd come into play here? If I was only concerned about
> collectd, I wouldn't have to write RRDCacheD at all ? collectd's RRDtool
> plugin has had caching since version 4.0, released in June 2007..

we call it 'heimkino' ... :-)

cheers
tobi

> Regards,
> -octo
>

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