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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 >> >
