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 > >
