On our weekly call this morning, we were talking about moving toward standardizing the format of Cyrus logs. My interest here is in making it easy for a program to read and classify logs. That's not as simple as it could be, right now, because often a log line is sprintf-'d with parameters. Even worse, sometimes those parameters have spaces in them.
I think we all agree on something like this: * produce a macro that does the logging in a standard format * the format leads with a "category", which is a fixed string * extra data to be included show up like auditlog does it: foo=<x> bar=<y> * by using a macro, we can get the location (file, function) from which the log line is being emitted Next steps: * agree on the specifics of the above and that it's the way to log in new code * start converting old code (prioritized by value of reading lines from each part of the code) Further thoughts before we get on to specifics? -- Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
