3.11. Patch information for Flume

Flume is based on Apache Flume 1.3.1 and includes the following patches:

JMS Source changes:
- FLUME-924: Implemented JMS source for Flume NG.
- FLUME-1784: Fixed issues with documentation and parameter name.
- FLUME-1804: JMS source not included in binary distribution.
- FLUME-1777: AbstractSource does not provide enough implementation for sub-classes.
- FLUME-1886: Added JMS enum type to SourceType so that users do not need to enter FQCN for JMSSource.
- FLUME-1976: JMS Source document should provide instruction on JMS implementation JAR files. For more details, see Flume User Guide - JMS Source.
- FLUME-2043: JMS Source removed on failure to create configuration
Spillable Channel - (Experimental)
- FLUME-1227: Introduce some sort of SpillableChannel.
Spillable Channel dependencies:
- FLUME-1630: Improved Flume configuration code.
- FLUME-1502: Support for running simple configurations embedded in host process.
- FLUME-1772: AbstractConfigurationProvider should remove component which throws exception from configure method.
- FLUME-1852: Fixed issues with EmbeddedAgentConfiguration.
- FLUME-1849: Embedded Agent doesn't shutdown supervisor
Improvements:
- FLUME-1878: FileChannel replay should print status every 10000 events.
- FLUME-1891: Fast replay runs even when checkpoint exists.
- FLUME-1762: File Channel should recover automatically if the checkpoint is incomplete or bad by deleting the contents of the checkpoint directory.
- FLUME-1870: Flume sends non-numeric values with type as float to Ganglia causing it to crash.
- FLUME-1918: File Channel cannot handle capacity of more than 500 Million events.
- FLUME-1262: Move doc generation to a different profile.

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