[sosreport,plugin] add --experimental and ExperimentalPlugin tag

Add an ExperimentalPlugin tagging class and an --experimental
command line option. This can be used to encourage testing of
new plugins and plugin ports without indicating full support.

Fixes #470.

Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sos/plugins/__init__.py b/sos/plugins/__init__.py
index 9d126a51..4ddd185d 100644
--- a/sos/plugins/__init__.py
+++ b/sos/plugins/__init__.py
@@ -760,6 +760,11 @@ class IndependentPlugin(object):
     pass
 
 
+class ExperimentalPlugin(object):
+    """Tagging class that indicates that this plugin is experimental"""
+    pass
+
+
 def import_plugin(name, superclasses=None):
     """Import name as a module and return a list of all classes defined in that
     module. superclasses should be a tuple of valid superclasses to import,