Congratulations, Rainer! This sounds like a great opportunity. Cheers, Brian
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Rainer Gerhards <rgerha...@hq.adiscon.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > finally, I can dispense some word on upcoming work for liblognorm. > > The short story is that I will have ample time in the next months to > seriously work on and improve liblognorm, including some new tooling to > make it easier to use, and make it usuable as a stand-alone tool. This will > become available to the rsyslog project via the mmnormalize module. > > The full story is a bit longer ;) As some of you may already know, I have > decided to brush up my academic credentials a bit and I am working on my > MSc. I have gotten the opportunity to work on the topic of log > normalization for my thesis. This, of course, is no implementation work, > but I plan to use liblognorm as a working sample of whatever comes out of > the thesis and plan to implement and proof ideas as they come up (using > liblognorm as a testbed like I did with rsyslog during the IETF syslog > standadization process). > > As such, I will try to develop liblognorm side-by-side with concept > development, but I may run into some subtle issue of original authorship: > the thesis of course must contain my own work and any third-party > suggestions in regard to algorithms must be quoted and can not count > against thesis work. So in a strange way the more good suggestions I get, > even for things I already considered, the more I run into trouble with the > thesis. Pure feedback like "this does not work for my environment" is no > problem, but sketches of algorithms are. So this is a bit complicated, > especially with the regular open source development model on ones mind. > I'll still try to work on that slippery slope, but may switch to a private > archive and "silence mode" if this turns out to become a real problem. In > any case, once the thesis is done I am more than open to discuss any > further suggestions. > > What I have on my mind for liblognorm is much more than wiggeling a bit > with it. What we currently use is actually a proof of concept (a useful > one, obviously), but there are more than a couple of rough edges. I think > the core algorithm can be improved, if not replaced, and there is much more > work needed to aid in developing and maintaining sample bases. I have some > semi-automatic process for the creation of sample bases on my mind, but > that's something that really must be investigated first. Also, I think we > need a different, better, description language, ... and so on. > > I have talked with Adiscon and I will work only part-time during the thesis > period and the prep work. That means I will be working less actively on > adding new features to rsyslog, but I am able to look at bug reports and > other important things. Actually, from a rsyslog PoV, I'll be working on a > big feature that is even better log normalization capability. > > I need to do some prep work before I can start with the actual thesis work. > Most importantly, I need a set, hopefully large and diverse, of actual log > messages. The better this set, the better most probably the end result will > be (some heuristics will be involved for sure). I hope to receive community > support in collecting the log set. But I'll detail that in another mail. > > Finally, I need to say that I am super-excited about this ability to > combine thesis work with something that I had on my mind for quite a while > but that I probably would realistically never have been able to look at in > this depth. And the implementation hopefully will be useful for the > community as well. So it's a win-win-win situation from my PoV. > > Rainer > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
