+1.

I would like to help if needed.

Jarcec

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:54:59AM -0800, Arvind Prabhakar wrote:
> So far we have the following sinks in Flume (ng):
> 
> - AvroSink
> - HDFSEventSink
> - IRCSink
> - LoggerSink
> - NullSink
> - RollingFileSink
> 
> All of these sinks are of type PollableSink - where the contract is that an
> active runner polls the sink to pick the next event based on a set policy.
> This runner is great since it offers us the ability to decouple thread
> lifecycle details from the sink implementation. It also offers the ability
> to implement failover/load-balancing and other complex sink routing
> policies as necessary. Flume-865 is taking this approach.
> 
> Since all Sinks are PollableSink types, I am suggesting that we collapse
> the PollableSink into the Sink interface itself (promote process() into
> Sink). This will ensure that our infrastructure is built to deal with such
> sink types only and therefore will be easier to implement and support.
> 
> If you feel this is not a valid assumption, please chime in to discuss your
> viewpoint.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arvind

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