Sounds great! I definitely would like to help on the log4j2 receivers portion and any syncing you want to do with Chainsaw.
Scott On 10/6/13, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello folks! > > early this year I wrote a small and simply http server for demonstration > purposes. It's based on NIO. When I picked up this task I always thought > it would be good for an idea I have on logging for a while now. > > Here it is: > https://bitbucket.org/grobmeier/lionbeast > > I would like to change the server in a way so it can make use of Log4j > receivers to receive logging events. Lionbeast shall provide a way to > manipulate these events and enable to create some metrics or something > similar. At the moment it is possible to create dynamic websites using > JRuby. I would like to have "Loglets" one day. This is basically a > script or implemented class which lets users work with the events the > way they want. > > I absolutely know about Apache Flume. I consider Flume the "big brother" > of Lionbeast. Lionbeast aims to be easy to use, install and extend. I > consider it more to be a partner of Chainsaw actually. Like the > server-side Version of Chainsaw. Actually I believe there might be some > opportunities if Chainsaw and Lionbeast would come together. > > If you like my idea, I would like to contribute the current code and ask > for a Git-Repository at Infra. > My current plan is to work on it over years change mostly and thats why > I am starting now to have it ready for that time. > In addition I would like to put some work in the current Receivers. I > don't know if they currently work with Log4j2 but I guess not so well. I > think there should be a receivers package directly in the Log4j 2 trunk, > maybe even in the core. > > I recently spoke to Benedikt Ritter who is a committer/PMC at Apache > Commons. I told him about my ideas and he motivated me to move forward > with it. Furthermore Benedikt expressed his interest to participate. I > would like to give him access to the Git repository as well. We should > also discuss if we should open a sandbox for logging in general, where > interested fellow committers can contribute code without having > committer-ship at logging. > > Thoughts? Comments? Likes? Dislikes? > > Cheers > Christian > > > --- > http://www.grobmeier.de > @grobmeier > GPG: 0xA5CC90DB >
