Changeset 1c2f3ee9 in trunk

Timestamp:

2020-12-14T14:40:30Z (5 years ago)

Author:

GitHub <noreply@…>

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919f31a, 93fb28f6, bf799c1

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e59a922 (diff), 158c4b9 (diff)
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git-author:

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun@…> (2020-12-14 14:40:30)

git-committer:

GitHub <noreply@…> (2020-12-14 14:40:30)

Message:

Merge pull request #924 from sajith/3555.stats-gatherer-is-history

Add a note about stats gatherer removal to "Old Configuration Files" doc

Fixes: ticket:3555

Files:

• docs/historical/configuration.rst (modified) (2 diffs)
• newsfragments/3555.minor (added)

docs/historical/configuration.rst ¶

@@ -24 +24 @@
 ``[client]helper.furl``          ``BASEDIR/helper.furl``
 ``[client]key_generator.furl``   ``BASEDIR/key_generator.furl``
-``[client]stats_gatherer.furl``  ``BASEDIR/stats_gatherer.furl``
+                                 ``BASEDIR/stats_gatherer.furl``      Stats gatherer has been removed.
 ``[storage]enabled``             ``BASEDIR/no_storage``               (``False`` if ``no_storage`` exists)
 ``[storage]readonly``            ``BASEDIR/readonly_storage``         (``True`` if ``readonly_storage`` exists)
@@ -48 +48 @@
 addition to any that were automatically discovered), whereas the new
 ``tahoe.cfg`` directive is not (``tub.location`` is used verbatim).
+
+The stats gatherer has been broken at least since Tahoe-LAFS v1.13.0.
+The (broken) functionality of ``[client]stats_gatherer.furl`` (which
+was previously in ``BASEDIR/stats_gatherer.furl``), is scheduled to be
+completely removed after Tahoe-LAFS v1.15.0.  After that point, if
+your configuration contains a ``[client]stats_gatherer.furl``, your
+node will refuse to start.