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Regards,
Remko

On Thursday, October 31, 2013, Remko Popma wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> I'd say go for it! If it's useful to you then it's probably useful for
> other people too.
>
> The projects you mention are either for other languages or no longer
> actively maintained (afaics), so I don't think you'd be duplicating effort.
>
> Regarding testing, I'm not sure who in the community has access to a ec2
> system to test such an appender. So we'd rely on junit tests and community
> feedback to fix any issues (but that's not a first).
>
> The way to proceed for this is to supply a patch that one of the
> committers can integrate with trunk. You'd need to check out trunk and base
> your patch off of that.
>
> To protect the ASF from legal issues, we ask that you submit a CLA (
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/#clas) before we can commit your
> contribution.
>
> Looking forward to your contribution!
>
> Best regards,
> Remko
>
> On Wednesday, October 30, 2013, Christian Schneider wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> for our ec2 instances (with limited diskspace) we like to have a simple
>> Appender that ships its logs to s3.
>> It seems there is no "standard" way of doing this.
>> There are some ideas, but they doesn't seem completed at the first glance
>> [0] ... [3]
>>
>> But before starting a new n-th S3Appender project, I like to ask whether
>> you think it would be a great idea?
>>
>> At the most simplest stage we could think of an extension of the
>> RollingFileAppender.
>> That Appender is then usable on any machine and in every infrastructure
>> that has http access to s3
>>
>> If this is done, maybe it would be useful to have a more ec2 coupled
>> appender.
>> That appender could know more about its environment.
>> With this, it would be possible to let log4j organize the "upload"-path.
>> E.g.: <bucket>/<instanceId || ipaddress>.
>> Or Information about the VPC settings, userscripts, ...
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks for you feedback,
>> Christian.
>>
>>
>> [0] https://github.com/ryanhosp/mldx-log-appenders
>> [1] http://aws.amazon.com/code/Amazon-S3/4032
>> [2] http://s3appender.codeplex.com/
>> [3] https://github.com/dialt0ne/rotate-to-s3
>>
>

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