- Add redis input tests
hack to make running input plugins
- allow password to be nil
- fix typo ('exception' -> ':exception')
- Break the loop if the plugin is finished (allows clean shutdown)
Merge branch 'master' of git://github.com/alexdean/logstash into alexdean-master

Conflicts:
	lib/logstash/outputs/redis.rb
Converter test_date to spec description
Split performance test in a separate definition
Merge pull request #196 from wiibaa/testing

Convert test_date to spec description
Merge pull request #192 from shaftoe/email

Fix email output to handle sendmail transport
Merge pull request #194 from JeremyEinfeld/master

Correction to GELF forwarding
- some cleanup after 9ca1ad39fa8eada7eb4b9ea4767ed1ed50a05630
- style/spacing fixes
Fix spacing
- add readme for running the tests
- remove ideas file
Adding first version fo alter plugin
mark zeromq filter as non-threadsafe
- update
remove print
retry flushes properly
- remove some todos
retry failed flushes to redis

retrying until we succeed will block filters & inputs, preventing too many
messages from accumulating in the redis output.