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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4/README.md b/vendor/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9433004a --- /dev/null +++ b/vendor/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +# Exponential Backoff [![GoDoc][godoc image]][godoc] [![Coverage Status][coveralls image]][coveralls] + +This is a Go port of the exponential backoff algorithm from [Google's HTTP Client Library for Java][google-http-java-client]. + +[Exponential backoff][exponential backoff wiki] +is an algorithm that uses feedback to multiplicatively decrease the rate of some process, +in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. +The retries exponentially increase and stop increasing when a certain threshold is met. + +## Usage + +Import path is `github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4`. Please note the version part at the end. + +Use https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 to view the documentation. + +## Contributing + +* I would like to keep this library as small as possible. +* Please don't send a PR without opening an issue and discussing it first. +* If proposed change is not a common use case, I will probably not accept it. + +[godoc]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 +[godoc image]: https://godoc.org/github.com/cenkalti/backoff?status.png +[coveralls]: https://coveralls.io/github/cenkalti/backoff?branch=master +[coveralls image]: https://coveralls.io/repos/github/cenkalti/backoff/badge.svg?branch=master + +[google-http-java-client]: https://github.com/google/google-http-java-client/blob/da1aa993e90285ec18579f1553339b00e19b3ab5/google-http-client/src/main/java/com/google/api/client/util/ExponentialBackOff.java +[exponential backoff wiki]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_backoff + +[advanced example]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4?tab=doc#pkg-examples |
