Explain "carbonapi >= 0.5. Note: we are not sure if there is any point in running carbonzipper over carbonapi at this moment."

[joltcan]

Does that mean that carbonzipper is not needed when you have carbonapi, or that you can leave out carbonapi?

[Civil]

All our stuff speaks the same protobuf. So you can in theory do something like:
Carbonapi -> carbonzipper -> carbonapi -> go-carbon.

The thing is that we are not sure if there is any cases where you should use carbonapi as a backend for Carbonzipper.

You can leave out Carbonzipper I'd you don't need multiple backends (at this moment)
You also can use only zipper, if you want to run Graphite-web over it.

[joltcan]

Thanks for the clarification!