Intro

[Athishpranav2003]

Hi guys,
I am Athish from India. I worked on Fluentd during my internship so now i am eager in contributing to Fluent projects. Just wanted to introduce myself to get to know others who are also actively working on it :)

[Athishpranav2003]

I am trying to pickup few tasks that are left here and there and i hope i create good contribution to the project

[ashie]

Hi, welcome you to join us!
As same as most other OSS projects, we always don't have enough man-power.
So your contribution will be very helpful to us.
Do you have any concrete task you want to tackle on?
If you don't, we will be able to help you assigning something suitable issues.
Please feel free to ask us if you have any problem.

[daipom]

Hi! I am daipom. Welcome!
I am glad that more people are interested in Fluentd and joining its development!

[daipom]

@Athishpranav2003 Thanks for your recent contribution!
If you are finding an issue to solve, for example, here are some issues I know.

• in_forward plugin bind on both ipv4 and ipv6 #3001
• remove_key_name_field true when key_name is message causes ArgumentError error="message does not exist" #4575
  • For filter_parser's part.
• JSON parser plugin can sometimes output records as strings rather than Hash #4100
  • The remaining problem for filter_parser.
• Windows Service: Stopping service sometimes can not be completed forever #3937
  • If you are interested in Windows.

[Athishpranav2003]

@daipom anything else interesting I can pickup ?

[daipom]

@Athishpranav2003 Thanks so much for your recent significant contributions!!
There are many bugs and enhancements that have not been worked on, so all are welcome!

• bug Something isn't working
• enhancement Feature request or improve operations

Recently, I would like to solve #3001.

[Athishpranav2003]

Thanks, will look them in upcoming weeks

[daipom]

Thanks!

[Athishpranav2003]

Cool
Will look at them. Currently picked up something in fluent-bit

[Athishpranav2003]

@ashie @daipom do you guys also part of @calyptia ?
Sorry guys, couldnt be that active here because of college work :(

[daipom]

I'm not part of @calyptia.
No problem! I'd be happy if you participated in the development again when you have time!

[cosmo0920]

Hey, @calyptia was acquired by @chronosphere in the beginning of this year: https://chronosphere.io/news/chronosphere-acquires-calyptia/
So, the @calyptia org is already absent. Just leaving for the purpose of historic site.

[Athishpranav2003]

i see, yah was going through it a while ago.

[Athishpranav2003]

My PRs in Fluentbit are stale for quiet a long :(

I wanted to contribute to C codebase since it's more fun but there seems no activity

[daipom]

@cosmo0920 If you have time, please take a look!

[cosmo0920]

Hi, we’re preparing to cut for the v3.1.7 release. I noticed your PRs but sometimes there is no associated unit test changes. So, if possible, could you work for creating / modifying to adopt test cases for your working issues?

[Athishpranav2003]

@daipom is there any thing like external people's PRs are not welcomed in Fluentbit?

I see 300 PR(~=300 issues) in the repo

[daipom]

Hmm, I'm not familiar with the fluent-bit situation, but I don't think so.
Maybe the maintainers just don't have enough time.

[cosmo0920]

Sometimes, it'll be no responded for a while. Because C language is quite hard to manage allocated resources properly. External people are not often paying attentions for these managements. So, there is lots of postponed PRs.

[cosmo0920]

BTW, Fluent Bit notation does not Fluentbit.
Fluent Bit or fluent-bit is correct.

[Athishpranav2003]

Sometimes, it'll be no responded for a while. Because C language is quite hard to manage allocated resources properly. External people are not often paying attentions for these managements. So, there is lots of postponed PRs.

I see

Makes sense since many people introduce mem leaks easily and also hard to code in C

[Athishpranav2003]

BTW, Fluent Bit notation does not Fluentbit.
Fluent Bit or fluent-bit is correct.

I didn't know lol
Fine anyway
Got the suggestions
Will change the code today

[Athishpranav2003]

@daipom Incase if there is anything for me to pickup let me know. I might be able to work on something now (slightly free)

[daipom]

Thanks so much!

We are just in the process of organizing the features we want to add for v1.19!

I haven't yet fully considered the priorities and needs, but here's what I've been thinking of as candidates so far.

• Allow compressed data for tcp/udp/syslog inputs #3728
• Bind to all network interfaces for both IPv4 and IPv6 #4558
• TLS 1.3 support in http output plugin #4332
• Http output bearer token authentication #3587

If there is anything you're interested in, I would be happy if you could work on it.
Just investigating the achievability or necessity would be very appreciated!

We may find others in the future.
I'll contact you again!

[Athishpranav2003]

I am interested in the TLS 1.3 support part since i am also doing Network Security course here at my college. Might be something i would really be interested in contributing to