Scott, 

I think you misunderstood. I wasn’t referring to any CVEs in Chainsaw code but 
in dependencies Chainsaw uses. Users expect dependencies to be updated 
periodically so that they can build a project that passes all their security 
scans.

Ralph

> On Sep 19, 2023, at 11:26 AM, Scott Deboy <scott.de...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ralph,
> 
> I already removed the socket appender vulnerability. I believe that was the
> only one.
> 
> Scott
> 
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 11:10 AM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Scott,
>> 
>> Apparently Chainsaw has dependencies that have CVEs reported against them
>> (or so I am told). We haven’t enabled GitHub Issues for Chainsaw AFAIK.
>> Both of these need to be addressed if the project is going to be considered
>> active.  Are you willing to help with both of these?
>> 
>> Ralph
>> 
>>> On Sep 19, 2023, at 3:25 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`.
>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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