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Roadmap: Dropwizard Metrics 5.0.x
There are currently no further plans for Dropwizard Metrics 5.x.
Once there are, you will be able to see the scheduled work in the 5.0.0 milestone.
@joschi Ok, that's fine, but what I can't find is the reasons there are no further plans. Why did it get paused? What would bring it back? etc.
Ok, that's fine, but what I can't find is the reasons there are no further plans.
There are currently not enough active maintainers and contributors pushing the agenda forward.
What would bring it back? etc.
Active long-time contributions from interested parties. 😃
CC: @dropwizard/metrics
@hdost Sorry that I sounded too harsh.
The issue right now is a lack of people who would be willing to invest substantial time and work into Dropwizard Metrics 5.x.
Past updates with backward-incompatible changes (e. g. Dropwizard Metrics 3.x -> 4.x) have shown that only a small number of people are willing to invest in the update once it's been released.
This leads to the situation that there are a lot of consumers still using an outdated and unsupported version of Dropwizard Metrics: https://twitter.com/dropwizardio/status/1259130162794373122
With this in mind, I'm wondering if investing any time into yet another major version with breaking changes (which would have to be picked up by consumers) currently makes sense.
I appreciate the feedback :) we're currently looking at our efforts internally and we're hoping to implement tagging/labels for our metrics, but that's only in the 5.x branch for now.
Hey @hdost and @joschi! Artem is here, I originally started the work on Metrics 5 a couple of years ago, but have been working on it only sporadically. I've recently merged the latest changes from the release/4.1 and release/4.2 branches to 5.0-development. The test suite is green now and Metrics 5.0 is usable to integrate directly or via the Metrics4 adapter. I can cut a new release candidate in Maven Central and see what are outstanding issues for Metrics 5. The most interesting use case would be to see how it integrates with Micrometer which already supports tags. Luckily, I'm going to have to have some free time in November - December because of the lockdown and I think it would be a good opportunity to finally release Metrics 5 in the wild!
Running sums are another feature I'd love to see get an official release: #1254
@arteam :wave: I've done a little bit of testing with the micrometer library, but I could also just be missing things it seems to be working alright.
Hi
Do you have any ideas/plans to support Jakarta EE 9 in 5.x branch ?
I noticed that metrics-servlets module in 5.x branch , for example, still uses Servlet API 4:
https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/blob/5.0-development/metrics-servlets/pom.xml
I noticed that metrics-servlets module in 5.x branch , for example, still uses Servlet API 4:
@sergey-morenets Would you be able to provide a forward-port of https://github.com/dropwizard/metrics/pull/1730 into the release/5.0.x branch?
@sergey-morenets Or better, port the missing functionality from release/4.2.x to release/5.0.x?
@sergey-morenets Or better, port the missing functionality from
release/4.2.xtorelease/5.0.x?
Thank you for suggestion. But I'm not sure if I have even permissions to work on this project.
Thank you for suggestion. But I'm not sure if I have even permissions to work on this project.
@sergey-morenets You can fork the project and create a pull request. 😃
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork
@arteam Could you please reconcile the 5.0-development and release/5.0.x branches (#1735) and port the changes from release/4.2.x to release/5.0.x (#1736)?
What is the status of the 5.0.x version? Will it ever be released?
Tagged/Labeled metrics is quite a big thing... and metrics 4.x does not have it.
I am also looking for an answer for @mbrannstrom question related to tags feature. Any good news folks ?
@shahbaaz31here It's simple: If somebody steps up as a permanent maintainer for the Dropwizard Metrics 5.x branch, we can release it.
Thanks @joschi . Does anyone know if there is any custom library available for adding tags ? We can use that until 5.x version comes.