On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Berin Loritsch wrote: > Now that I am back working with Cocoon, I have recently come to the conclusion that >DEBUG > simply outputs too much information. For one (1) request, Cocoon outputs 23 pages of > log messages equivalent to 57k on the drive. > > My friends, this is too much. Logging should have a purpose, and not simply spout >information > for information's sake. I am trying to track down what is going on in the XSP >engine, > and I have to sift through 57k of messages. > > Principal of Diminishing Returns > -------------------------------- > It is important to understand the principal of diminishing returns. Basically, it >boils > down to the concept that 90% correctness only takes 10% of the effort. It is that >last > 10% of correctness that takes up the remaining 90% of the effort. Our logging has >reached > critical mass. By logging anything and everything, we have an unusable mess. > > I am not sure what needs to be done. Some categories need to be logged, while others > do not. It all depends on what you are tracking down. We need to have more folks > understand the LogKit configuration file, so that we can have a much finer grained > control. Since it is a major point of Cocoon's configuration Cocoon needs to >document > it in the xdocs. The inline comments are not very clean, perhaps we need separators > that demarcate the beginning and ends of the comments.
I've suggested a while ago to have a section in the docs about configuration issues. Giacomo > > This is just my mini-rant. Back to business now. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
