Writing plugins for Shoal to deal with log types generated by servers other than apache

by tanghanhong for Kernel.org - the Linux Kernel Organization

Although apache is the most popular web server currently in use, it would be considerate to provide support for other servers like nginx, lighthttpd, git, rsync, and ftp in the form of plugins. The functionality of plugins for Shoal is log parsing and counting. Once one plugin for one of the server types mentioned above is done, other plugins are not far from ready, because the plugins are technically similar.