Experiencing Telemetry

Work of the past week is on development of hackystat-analysis-telemetry, to include telemetry analysis of Issue data into Hackystat system. Deal to the well constructed system as example and the sufficient documents, it is again quite straight forward to the goal. However, during coding, I found the telemetry language is kind of weird.

The language defines Telemetry Charts using some redefined language components, such as Reducers, which generate stream point value from DPD analysis, and axis. In the Chart definition, after define the name and parameters, the kernel part will look like this:

chart Issue(member, status) = {
"Issue invocations",
(IssueStream(member, status), yAxisZeroBased("Issue Count"))
};

Then we need to define the Stream called IssueStream, and after parameter description, the kernel part look like this:

streams IssueStream(member, status) = {
"Issue counts for the given mode for this Project",
Issue(member, status)
};

The definition of Streams seems redundant to me because it add no additional information to the reducer. So why not using the reducer directly in the Chart definition? I think it will be cooler that the telemetry language can directly use normal reducer like DevTime to generate the member level chart, so that no need to write in Java the member level reducer again.

Now I am coding the test cases for the Issue Telemetry analysis, need to make up Issue data again.