Request to create repository google-ipmi-bmc-health

[Vijay Khemka]

>
> Hello Patrick,
>
> Thanks for your understanding for our request to create a new repository.
>
> Our team had also met last Friday for a discussion on where the
> implementation of the blob handler should go, and we also agreed it is
> preferable to create a new repository compared to putting its
> implementation in phosphor-health-monitor or phosphor-ipmi-blobs.
>
> Now that the IPMI blob handler lives in its own separate repo, it
> seems to me that the design does not have to be separated right now;
> the new repo could, for now, hold the monolithic IPMI blob handler
> where the metric implementation is entirely in the handler.
>

I completely disagree with this approach of having a platform specific
implementation, I will still prefer to have a generic design in health
monitor
for metrics collection and blob handler can be in a separate repo.


> In the meantime, we will continue to work on the separated design
> where the blob handler does light-weight dbus operations against the
> daemon, starting from addressing the comments. This might take some
> time but we are invested in its design proposal and we are determined
> to finish implementing it.
>
> If this plan sounds reasonable, can we request to create the
> repository now? If the word "health" in the name is a concern, how
> about "google-ipmi-bmc-metrics"?
>
> Thanks!
> Sui
>
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