YES On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:13 AM Ben Kochie <[email protected]> wrote:
> YES > > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 8:52 PM Bjoern Rabenstein <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Prometheans, >> >> So far, we have recommended Celsius as the base unit for temperatures, >> despite Kelvin being the SI unit. That was well justified by the >> overwhelming majority of use cases, where Kelvin would be just >> weird. I'd really like to see more scientific usage of Prometheus, so >> I was never super happy with that recommendation, but since it was >> just a recommendation, I could live with it. >> >> Now Matt Layher came up with another, more technical use case: color >> temperature. Here, using Celsius would be even weirder. So there is a >> case where you clearly do not want to follow the suggestion of the >> linter, which is more in line with typical Prometheus use cases than >> my arguably somewhat far fetched time series for low-temperature >> experiments. >> >> Therefore, Matt suggested to make the metrics linter not complain >> about kelvin. >> >> I think this is a clearly defined problem with clear arguments and a >> clear disagreement between Brian Brazil on the one side and Matt and >> myself on the other side. The appropriate amount of effort has been >> spent to find a consensus. All arguments can be found in >> https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/pull/761 and >> https://github.com/prometheus/docs/pull/1648 . >> >> I hereby call a vote for the following proposal: >> >> Allow Kelvin as a base unit in certain cases and update our >> documented recommendation and the linter code accordingly. >> >> >> (The changes may take the form of the two PRs out there, but the vote >> in about the general idea above, not the implementation detail.) >> >> >> The vote closes on 2020-06-04 20:00 UTC. >> -- >> Björn Rabenstein >> [PGP-ID] 0x851C3DA17D748D03 >> [email] [email protected] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Prometheus Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/20200528185216.GK2326%40jahnn >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prometheus Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmrynK5YGgw10%2BdwoA1_2kQO0RegD3AY27oNRZwJy9oqYg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CABbyFmrynK5YGgw10%2BdwoA1_2kQO0RegD3AY27oNRZwJy9oqYg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prometheus Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/prometheus-developers/CAB58Z11Kgy-QJB%3D-2nqfY%2BV4hHxjBp5nJXeCuKcbaE5BL41cZw%40mail.gmail.com.
