This is a feature meant to allow realtime tasks to work without being told upfront
what shardSpec they should use (so we can potentially publish a variable number
of segments per interval).
The idea is that there is a "pendingSegments" table in the metadata store that
tracks allocated segments. Each one has a segment id (the same segment id we know
and love) and is also part of a sequence.
The sequences are an idea from @cheddar that offers a way of doing replication.
If there are N tasks reading exactly the same data with exactly the same logic
(think Kafka tasks reading a fixed range of offsets) then you can place them
in the same sequence, and they will generate the same sequence of segments.
- Switch to using Druid parent POM
- Add required fields for Sonatype
- Common plugin versions and settings have been moved to the parent pom
- Cleanup artifacts and POMs for consistent formatting
- Remove org.hyperic.sigar dependency and update docs to reflect necessary jars to add at runtime when sigar is needed
