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
