A feature branch As discussed in the community meeting we are going to create a ‘feature’ branch for METRON–777 and it’s associated PR’s. The purpose behind the feature branch is to more formally stage a large PR or set of PR’s to allow for for better review participation ( of the pr and changes due to feedback ) and more formal collaboration and testing.
In order to accomplish this, there are several things that will have to be done. I believe they are: 1. A new branch shall be made in the apache-git repo. 2. I will rebase my METRON–777 branch to that new branch and submit a PR to it in github, which we will land. 3. I will also follow the same procedure for METRON–942 with the expectation of landing it. This will give us the full set of functionality as currently set of out for extensions. Currently there are two other branches that I have to fix regressions or missing required functionality. 1. I will merge these into one ( they are related ). 2. I will then submit them are PR’s Hopefully we can get these into the branch, so that we can then test the whole end to end functionality, and have the ability to review and discuss the design decisions made against a working system. To that end, after these PR sets land, I will make a video around using the features. The end result of the feature branch and the effort will be a branch that has met all the criteria and and acceptance standards set out for it. Will will have some community activity at that time as a means of introduction and demonstration. Questions: - What should the naming convention for the branch be? feature-? - Should there be a new FEATURE.md that has the equivalent of the PR description? or should the README.md be modified ( to be changed back before merge ) so that it is prominent? - We need to set some criteria for ‘done’, and record that somewhere. Should there be a feature branch jira? I think we need one for the eventual merge anyways. - other? Please provide any feedback or other questions so that we can proceed without much more delay. Refresher : What is METRON–777? METRON–777 one of two PR’s to implement the side loading of Metron parsers ( METRON–258 ). In order to provide a working, testable build that meets our pr requirements, the functionality was only broken down into two PR’s: - [#530 METRON-777 Metron Extension System and Parser Extensions]( https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/530) - [#590 METRON-942 Rest api and configuration for Metron parser extensions] (https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/580) METRON–777 provides the architecture support and changes and moves the current parsers over to the new architecture. METRON–942 provides the rest api to install a 3rd party parser extension, and a stellar command for reading extension configurations it should be noted that this set of features is still incomplete, as the metron-config ui should be changed to provide a ui front end for extension management
