I think I agree with Scott: I don't see a reason to nuke it. We can't really tell what usage looks like.
WRT 5-10 years... uh? Where would those numbers come from? I'd never commit to anything in that time frame outside of a commercial support contract. Gary On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 6:26 AM Scott Deboy <scott.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, it still works well, and real time log analysis and Chainsaw's > support for filtering are very powerful for many dev-local use cases. > > User base I can't speak to, but I agree based on lack of questions it's > probably very low to non-existent. > > I'd prefer we find an option that isn't "nuke it from orbit". > > Scott > > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 12:00 AM Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote: > > > AFAIC, Chainsaw is hardly getting any maintenance. Considering its > activity > > over the years, I haven't witnessed a user base either. I suppose the > trend > > in processing logs (i.e., rendering them into JSON and storing them in > > Elasticsearch, GCP/AWS log sinks, etc.) is shifted away from > > `PatternLayout`-rendered files collected under `/var/logs`. I would like > to > > retire[1] Chainsaw in a vote thread. Thoughts? > > > > [1] Retirement translates to archival of the repository and clearing up > its > > mentions in `logging.apache.org`. > > >
