Hi Scott, I believe you; thanks for speaking up and being around.
How can I help? I think Chainsaw needs to see a release soon, so what can I do to help you? I am glad to clean up things and whatever is necessary. Kind regards, Christian On Wed, Nov 29, 2023, at 00:15, Scott Deboy wrote: > I have dropped the ball here, but will commit to working on this, this year. > > I want to preserve a bunch of what can be done in the > https://github.com/apache/logging-chainsaw/tree/chainsaw-with-log4j1-dep > branch, and some of that just isn't possible because equivalent > functionality was never added to log4j2. > > Remote tailing via the VFSLogFilePatternReceiver, with the existing > filter and search support, is enough I think. > > I'll jump in and help. > > Scott > > Scott > > On 11/28/23, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@apache.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have started to clean up a few things that seemed good to me. >> The last time I sent a message like this was 1.5 months ago, but there was >> not much progress in maintaining it. >> >> I am currently in a state where I slowly get what should be happening, but >> unfortunately, it does not. >> We are not ready to release a new version, nor do we know what is necessary >> to release one. >> >> We have lots of dead code in Chainsaw, and it is tough to understand "what >> should it do?" >> >> I move around many Swing components to understand better, because the code >> is complex. However, I didn't see how Chainsaw would do anything beneficial. >> It's not working at all. >> >> Yes, I now what a "receiver" is meant to do. But apart from this description >> we have no specific goal nor do we actually receive anything (or I don't >> know how). >> >> For an ordinary person, it seems impossible to connect to a running server >> to tail a log file (I am not sure if it should do it) or even analyze a >> regular log file. >> >> This is when either old committers step up to tell a new one, like me, what >> is going on or to set a specific goal that we want to reach with a new >> version of Chainsaw. >> >> It was fun to clean up, but we need to talk more about Chainsaw. As for me, >> it is unusable, hard to fix and we need a new set of goals and radical >> refactoring to make it work again. If we are not agreeing on what it should >> do, it's time to go dormant. I am sorry to say this, I like Chainsaw. But me >> alone - I can't fix it. >> >> Please let me know, >> Christian >> >>
