On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 07:50, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to thank all those users who have commented during the past three > (!) years on config format questions. I have consolidated all input and hope > I have come up with a decent solution. Obviously, not everyone will like > everything, but I hope I could find a good compromise.
You're welcome, and it's exciting to see rsyslog really come through in the past few years. I started watching/participating a few years ago when it became apparent that you guys were the rising star in actually trying to make a better syslog product, and you've not proven me wrong. > I hope the new format is useful and does not upset too many. Sorry for the > silence on the final selection. Past experience told me that there were too > many totally conflicting views of what the format should look like. I was > deeply concerned that a broader detail discussion would have derailed this > effort again. So I used known arguments and my best judgment to create the > final format. Please all be assured that your arguments were deeply > considered and extremely useful in getting this done. The sooner a developer realizes they can't please everyone, the more quickly they can move on and actually get things done. I personally would have preferred a wholesale abandonment of the decades-old heritage, but can appreciate the utility to others and its simplicity. As Torvalds said, "... what's the point of being in charge if you can't pick the bike shed color without holding a referendum on it? So I'm just going all alpha-male, and just renumbering it. You'll like it." _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
