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Re: [pcp] Relocation of Parfait

To: Paul Smith <psmith@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] Relocation of Parfait
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 05:54:49 -0500 (EST)
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Reply-to: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thread-topic: Relocation of Parfait
Hi Paul,

----- Original Message -----
> I've been thinking about Parfait a bit lately, I'd like to migrate the
> Mercurial repository & Google Code "site" over to Github under the PCP
> banner organization.  It would make more sense from a marketing perspective
> and align with the existing git'ness of pcp, and the pcp.io site.

Makes sense.

> Right now Parfait does not build with Java 7 (it seems to require Java 6),
> and since Aconex (finally) migrated to Java 7 it would be ok to fix that up
> properly too.
> 
> I would then like to either branch, or start from scratch on a new mechanism
> for metrics to write to the MMV format.  Attempt to keep the in-process
> metric collection separate from the exporting to MMV as much as one can.
> The abstraction around the Instance Domain is going to be the sticking
> point, I think the general metric value system otherwise ought to be ok.

Yep, agreed.

I need to finish up my current containers-in-pcp focus, then I'm hoping to
find some time to spend back on this area ... IMO its really important and
a missing piece of the puzzle for PCP users still.

> I would hope this aligns with the other email I recently sent around other
> customers using Java benefiting from the PCP ecosystem.

Yes, I think so.

> Anyway, if you have any thoughts on these matters, let me know, I'll start by
> preparing the Mercurial->Git repo migration soon.  Nathan et al, I will
> likely need to discuss with you permissions (or handover of repo) to allow
> the new git remote under the PCP Github area.

Will be in touch soon, thanks Paul!

cheers.

--
Nathan

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