adding converted static asciidocs
ElasticSearch output plugin to support multiple hosts and enhance stability. (by Hao Chen)
Closes #1791
Use v1.9.3 for gem ci_reporter. Fixes Jenkins tests
Add metadata via @metadata field

This makes @metadata basically a way to store data along with an event
that is *NOT* included when serialized to an output.

Use cases:
- For elasticsearch output, set the index, type, document_id, routing
  key, etc with metadata and you won't be burdened by storing a filed
  named 'index' in your document!
- For elasticsearch input, we can set @metadata fields for the
  index/type/document_id instead of polluting the event data itself.
- No need for "short-lived fields" such as timestamps. For example, a
  common pattern is to use grok to capture a timestamp text  and give that
  to the date filter and finally use mutate to remove that captured text
  field.
- Provide a kind of scratch space for events that are not part of the
  event data.

Fixes #1834

Fixes #1836
incorporate @wibaa feedback
Merge branch 'doc/asciidoc/static'
Bump to 2.0.0.dev
DNS Filter spec should always mock the call to the resolv library Fix: #1875

Fixes #1878
add elasticsearch spec tag to exclude on external ES dependency

Fixes #1920
Fix typo.

Fixes #1927

Fixes #1928
first draft for performance integration tests

Fixes #1773
track per second tps and report top & avg tps

Fixes #1773
Include stud/try module to elasticsearch_spec test

Previously, a few elasticsearch integration tests relied on this module,
but the module could not be found.

Fixes #1929
Remove the rescue so we can see what errors we get
Closes #1931
Fix metadata testing failures

This bug was introduced in the recent metadata patch. The problem was
caused by a testing-specific monkeypatch on LogStash::Event#[]=

I fixed this by moving the strict_set input validation from
LogStash::Util::Accessors to LogStash::Event as a class method.
Then monkeypatched the Event#[]=  to invoke validation before doing
the set operation. This now makes it call the original []= method
and should help keep future breakages from happening.

Fixes #1936
Refactor build tooling to use Ruby

The new way to build is using 'rake' and not 'make'.

For some some attempt at compatibility, any 'make' invocation will
invoke rake. `make foo` will invoke `rake foo`.

This is for #1640

Major changes:
* rake is used instead of make. This allows us to more easily improve,
  debug, and test the build tooling.
* The build process can be bootstrapped from any Ruby that has
  Rake available. Bootstrapping rake is automatic will download JRuby and
  re-execute itself under JRuby.
* rpm and deb packages no longer list any java as dependencies. This
  is the result of user discomfort and discussions which concluded
  that there is no good way to "depend" on Java via rpm or deb.

Internal changes:
* Vendoring paths are project-based. Each vendor directory is now
  specific as vendor/<project>/... For example, JRuby is dumped into
  vendor/jruby/...

Other changes:

* We don't use jruby-complete anymore. We now use bin/jruby as the entry point.
  This improves the startup time of Logstash on my laptop by approximately
  1.5 seconds (~25% speedup of startup time). Testing `bin/logstash
  version` speed; 5 runs each:

  * Before patch: 7.27 7.55 7.26 7.42 7.47
  * After patch: 5.54 5.97 5.67 5.58 5.54

Smaller changes:
- removed 'env' subcommand
- Remove 'deps' subcommand. Replaced by 'rake vendor:all'
- Add gem_home method for this platform's GEM_HOME
- .travis.yml removed because we haven't used Travis in a long time.
- bin/logstash exits nonzero with a useful message if JRuby can't be found.

Notes:

Invoke bundler via system() call instead of Bundler::CLI.
After some discussion in #bundler on freenode (very helpful!) on how
to do what we need to do with bundler, I was encouraged to not use the
bundler api from ruby, so system() it is.

Patch slightly modified to fit the new model of packaging (ruby instead
of shell invocation), but original author is obazoud in #1008.

Richard Pijnenburg helped with some of the code and was lovely in
helping test it.

Fixes #1640
Don't try to load bundler/cli anymore since we don't use it

This should help incorrectly installing bundler when it isn't present.

Fixes #1940
Exclude certain files from packaging

Fixes #1940
Refactor files/exclusion

Fixes #1940
Make most things depend on bootstrap

Fixes #1940