init checkin of a carbon output plugin
added CarbonOutput to the list of available plugins
added message_matcher syntax to example for CarbonOutput configuration
changed default port from 9125 to 2003 for carbon
updated documentation to refer to the plaintext protocol in Carbon
changed the whisper output to not memcopy payload from the pipelinepack
init checkin of a ticker attribute for input plugins
updated stat_accum_input tests to use the new input plugin ticker
changed wording on configuration for carbon docs
removed unnecessary if block
removed tickChan from stat_accum_input
updated docs to reflect the use of ticker_interval and that it is now
a required configuration parameter
Only output the problematic text, not the whole Logline struct.
Write to seek journal if we exit before we've consumed the entire file.
Merge pull request #281 from mozilla-services/features/resume-file-mid-parse

Features/resume file mid parse
Merge pull request #269 from mozilla-services/features/issue_256

Features/issue 256
Issue #275 Allow output() serialize Lua tables to JSON
Merge pull request #282 from mozilla-services/issue_275

Issue #275 Allow output() to serialize Lua tables to JSON
Add ElasticSearchOutput support
revised as per code review

- added TickerInterval attribute to the stat_accum_input  with a default of 10 seconds
- switched the access to Ticker() to use a local instance for mocking purposes
Merge pull request #278 from mozilla-services/features/issue_259

Features/issue 259