[PATCH] Linux packages: documented nginx-module-otel package

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Thu Oct 26 17:26:19 UTC 2023


Hello!

On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 10:52:40AM +0100, Yaroslav Zhuravlev wrote:

[...]

> As an optional variant to consider, perhaps it might be good
> to reflect that it's a third party module authored by nginx devs, e.g:

[...]

> +Additionally, since version 1.25.3
> +nginx-authored third-party module
> +<link url="https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-otel">nginx-otel</link>
> +is built as dynamic and shipped as a separate package:
> +<programlisting>
> +nginx-module-otel
> +</programlisting>

Note that "nginx-authored" here looks misleading, as no nginx core 
developers work on this module.

Overall, I do support the clear distinction between nginx's own 
modules and 3rd-party modules provided in the packages repository.  
(But, as correctly noted by Konstantin, this should include njs as 
well.)

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Maxim Dounin
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