Davyd,

You have commit rights but I am not sure if that gives you the ability to 
create a new repo. But before doing that I would create a confluence page to 
lay out the initial requirements and design.

If you can’t create a repo and would like one I can certainly help with that.

Ralph

> On Jun 30, 2021, at 12:44 PM, Davyd McColl <dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm rather new to go, but looking for ways to improve by writing code 
> alongside people who actually know what they're doing. If I can help, please 
> ping me.
> 
> -d
> 
> 
> On June 30, 2021 18:12:46 Christofer Dutz <cd...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> and sorry for being late to the party ;-)
>> 
>> I am currently working hard on PLC4X' Go support and am also using what I 
>> create in the Open-Source project in some larger corporate applications.
>> 
>> One thing that has always bugged me with go, was the inavailability of 
>> loggers that allow me to set different log levels for different parts of the 
>> application. In go with every half-efficient logging framework, it's an all 
>> or nothing thing. So if I want to track down a problem in my driver for 
>> protocol X and I switch logging to TRACE it's like trying to drink out of an 
>> open fire-hose.
>> 
>> What I would love to do as a first step, and I don't think it should be too 
>> complicated, would be to create a Go API that allows us to define 
>> hierarchies of log levels, just like we know them in the Java world. This 
>> API would be used in the application to log, but it wouldn't actually do any 
>> logging but internally sort of use an underlying framework (possibly auto 
>> configured to TRACE or the most talkative log level) and forward log 
>> requests to that if it passes the filter criteria.
>> 
>> So in PLC4Go for example we could use this Go Logging API. If my company now 
>> uses logrus or zerolog, then all we have to do in that application is 
>> initialize the log4go system (I know there's a project using that name 
>> pattern ... I'm referring to something we built) with the corresponding 
>> adapter.
>> 
>> What do you think? I'm not one of these "I whish someone would build X for 
>> me" folks ... I am willing to put quite some effort into something like 
>> this. But I think it should be in a project like Apache Logging and not as a 
>> side project of PLC4X.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> On 2020/12/11 12:20:18 Volkan Yazıcı wrote:
>>> I support the initiative. At bol.com, we also needed to implement our own
>>> Go logging layouts (JSON) and appenders (Redis). That said, I don't know Go
>>> and I don't think I will be able to spare time to both learn a new language
>>> (even though I am really into learning Go) and maintain such a project. I
>>> mean, not that you need my help, but just wanted to share my availability.
>>> If I would have time, I would rather clean up Log4j bugs piled up in JIRA.
>>> I also agree with Matt that this would pave the road to standardizing the
>>> logging configuration file formats across multiple languages.
>>> What I witness most for code — in particular libraries, APIs, etc. —
>>> written by programmers whose expertise is actually in another language,
>>> that they mostly don't get the language conventions right. For instance, I
>>> was horrified many times in the past to read/use Java code written by
>>> JavaScript (front-end) developers. These two languages have totally
>>> different approaches and (community embraced) conventions that one cannot
>>> plug-n-play the mindset of one to another. In conclusion, as far as I know,
>>> none of us is programming in Go on a daily basis. Hence, I strongly
>>> recommend consulting to experts in this domain before publishing something
>>> to the outside world. For one, I am pretty sure there should be Go experts
>>> within the Apache community, hence having expert reviews should be
>>> relatively easy. Second, Apache has such a good track record in delivering
>>> high quality software, even an inferior project might get quite some
>>> attraction and we will be bound to maintain it for years. These are my
>>> concerns in general. That said, I would be more than happy to ditch off our
>>> custom Go loggers with an Apache-approved alternative.
>>> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:29 PM Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > The company I work for has started using Go for some of the middleware
>>> > components we are developing. I have looked at several logging frameworks
>>> > for Go and have not been impressed by any of them. As such, I am
>>> > considering starting a project here. The major goals of this would be:
>>> >
>>> > Use an external configuration (at least JSON and XML).
>>> > Allow the configuration to be accessed via HTTP(S) - Spring Cloud
>>> > Configuration.
>>> > Allow dynamic reconfiguration.
>>> > Allow plugins (probably as Go plugins?)
>>> > Support for Markers, context attributes, Layouts, Appenders.
>>> >
>>> > Anyone interested?
>>> >
>>> > Ralph
>>> >
>>> >


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