Brainstorming doc about quoting for metric and label names

[Bjoern Rabenstein]

Hi Prometheans,

at the last in-person dev-summit in Munich, we talked a lot about how
to allow arbitrary UTF-8 characters in metric and label names (or
maybe just allow a few like "." and "/"...).

We also had some whiteboarding and brainstorming in the breaks, which
isn't reflected in the dev-summit notes. And obviously, there have
been a lot of discussions on various channels, private and public.

What started as an attempt to document the brainstorming that happened
at the dev-summit evolved into a summary of the current state of all
those discussions, as far as I have noticed. Please have a look:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yFj5QSd1AgCYecZ9EJ8f2t4OgF2KBZgJYVde-uzVEtI/edit

Cheers,
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[Ganesh Vernekar]

The idea presented at the end of the doc feels very natural and +1 to that.

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[Goutham Veeramachaneni]

+1 to  {__name__="Björn's metric", currency="€"}

I am ambivalent about {"Björn's metric"}, {!"Björn's metric"}, {~"Björn's .*"}, and {!~"Björn's .*"} but have no strong feelings.

All in all, super happy we're making progress here!

Thanks
Goutham

[Julien Pivotto]

On 20 Mar 12:31, Goutham Veeramachaneni wrote:
> +1 to {__name__="Björn's metric", currency="€"}
>
> I am ambivalent about {"Björn's metric"}, {!"Björn's metric"}, {~"Björn's
> .*"}, and {!~"Björn's .*"} but have no strong feelings.

I am personnaly happy if we limit to {__name__="Björn's metric"} and
{"Björn's metric"}. Regexes and != on metric name is not something I
want to encourage and I think the long form is probably okay.

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