-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/2013 02:58 PM, Steffen Larsen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > First of all great work and perfect to bring this up.. I’ve done > this a while now, but haven’t brought it to a broader audience. > thumbs up!
indeed, good job and +1 for this > So here is my first 50 cent on the doc: > > Cool stuff with the tags.. This I can tel you will be valuable for > many people. I use these kind of tags all the time to piggy back > stuff, that could be valuable in the context. > > I don’t like the tag “event”. I think it should be <log> tag > instead, no to confuse anybody. I have made several custom XMPP > components and client where they have event tag embedded, which > have a completely different meaning and context. I also think that "event" is a bit too broad of a term here and would prefer "log" or even "eventlog" > > Type and Level? I think its too complicated. Only level should be > present and with fewer clases.. Debug, Info, Notice… is way too > much. People tend to misuse and not think when they have a lot of > choices. :-) I also think that this may be too many options and would prefer to see Level limited to a smaller set and have Type removed completely as it could be implemented as Tags. I do love that you've chosen to use words instead of numbers to represent the levels. Another item I wanted to bring up is can we just remove timezone worries completely and say "use UTC and only UTC"? IMO it is a best practice and would avoid the whole TZ issue (yea, yea, I know this one is going to be a long shot ;) thanks! > > -Cheers! /Steffen > > On 10 Nov 2013, at 20:31, Peter Waher <peter.wa...@clayster.com > <mailto:peter.wa...@clayster.com>> wrote: > >> Hello all >> >> First of all: Thank you to everybody providing both input and an >> interest. It is clear the need for an extension in this area is >> missing and both wanted and needed. >> >> So I took the opportunity to write a first proposal based on all >> your comments and on our past experience as well, on how such an >> event logging extension could look like (attached). I’ve made >> sure Syslog events can be mapped onto such event log messages >> (being a standard and all), but extended it a bit to provide for >> things lacking in Syslog as well as adapting it to the world of >> XML where new possibilities exist. >> >> The extension is made so that it can be used both by those who >> only want to send simple text events and by those who want to >> have a more controlled way of sending data (including data and >> types). Hopefully this is a good compromise. But as with all >> compromises, it has the possibility to offend people in both >> camps… >> >> What do you think? If you have any questions, comments or >> suggestions please don’t hesitate to mail them. >> >> Best regards, Peter Waher >> >> <xep-0000-EventLog.html> > - -- bear xmpp agitator; ops curmudgeon; generalist http://bear.im/about http://bear.im/pubkey.txt 0A93 9BA7 8203 FCBC 58A9 E8B5 9D1E 0661 8EE5 B4D8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSf/jwAAoJEJ0eBmGO5bTYSZQP/RU4RErKoT0I+5o9qNS8cu7q d5dh3oraLTZaKS+G9vB3qwjGHaeUYCzqzygZdekm6xmsh/X8OCd5sgHSqgwpCTuM reMicE7VW4xel/NVC9m7tyyEVeqepDB0AYQrlCSEMG7chpTuasqrf7Uv78M/ss04 swartJSGNAuLx0hDtvBFkHnyh/JtMOiyigE1fNgLArV2YUsiN8wbCef/Gflo6l0k tP8Y/s3ZrRLnmE4Ay9+FoHHm/FuYff8ALxkLU0dfY4whnecOdAQWMhbrh8SBDys6 4bvGvVG7tyg/LbGLD3Bv8BmfU1tbo5b5HR/WPMGdAoNs9ldtYuBoA3+rxpFDIaUz aiQP6O5F5W1eA7MRkMWOw+W2sixVzaIIlJ/GvmYNTM9rX5UtIIxAIxbZfjkg8hC6 cNRitUaPpZPDAnfNmSU1SXFg4dUS2U0Xf+HUTwKcFmcm5AN7lqQrVcG9Cw2K/61F 5cGUfETQue7f7W4Qrn9h9ixXux9u0UEvpivY2DgHWxOEnTv0W9tQziCQgn8n/Vto VpWqo2xzrxJv4epzI6K2HN1R+zdKlxbyuc2vLv6reTmL59ioEzOoQxk5fYwt9q6d 1TMDMMlJIgfG4w2E+FHPjdmJh8q8FCQMUClUVYX4t6kb2/nbwlKpFfN5bHnmiIIE zv0YlqAhtaGXFamqjSJM =kob/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
