Hindsight

Overview

Hindsight is a C based data processing infrastructure based on the lua sandbox project. I have received several inquiries about a lighter weight and faster data pipeline with delivery guarantees to replace Heka. Hindsight is that light weight skeleton around the same lua sandbox offering 'at least once' delivery semantics.

Full Documentation
Support
- IRC: #hindsight on irc.mozilla.org
- Mailing list: https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/hindsight

Build

Prerequisites

Clang 3.1 or GCC 4.7+
CMake (3.0+) - http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
lua_sandbox (1.1+) - https://github.com/mozilla-services/lua_sandbox

CMake Build Instructions

git clone https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight.git
cd hindsight
mkdir release
cd release

# Linux
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release ..
make
ctest
cpack -G TGZ # (DEB|RPM|ZIP)

# Cross platform support is planned but not supported yet

Releases

The master branch is the current release and is considered stable at all times.
New versions can be released as frequently as every two weeks (our sprint cycle). The only exception would be for a high priority patch.
All active work is flagged with the sprint milestone and tracked in the project dashboard.
New releases occur the day after the sprint finishes.
- The version in the dev branch is updated
- The changes are merged into master
- A new tag is created

Contributions

All pull requests must be made against the dev branch, direct commits to master are not permitted.
All non trivial contributions should start with an issue being filed (if it is a new feature please propose your design/approach before doing any work as not all feature requests are accepted).