Just a tiny note due to overload ;) On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I'll leave it to Otis to give more details, because he's an Apache > committer, but I believe there's a misunderstanding here. > > An Apache project can still be backed up by a commercial company. Lots of > projects are, like Solr, Flume (another logging product!) and so on. The > main advantage I see is that it's easier for the community to contribute > and drive the project forward. It's a model that seems to work for > open-source software, and lots of projects who got in there are doing very > well - very active, growing, lots of people offering > consulting&support&professional services, building more complex products on > top of them, packaging them in various ways, etc > > I think this is an idea that would help drive more contributions and > hopefully solve the 24 hours/day problem that keeps popping up lately, more > and more as rsyslog gets more attention. To prove the "attention" theory, > let's look at some trends for rsyslog and some other products that came up > in discussions lately: > > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=rsyslog%2C%20logstash%2C%20syslog-ng&cmpt=q > > And the mailing list traffic: > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.rsyslog > > Maybe going to Apache would be a crazy idea in the sense that it requires > following that procedure. And people already have too little time. Maybe a > less crazy idea is just to put it on GitHub or somewhere similar where it > would be easy to just send pull requests. Well... done so 6 month ago ;) This is the initial blog post with some progress: http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/05/moving-to-github.html Was announced at several places. Overall feedback is "not bad, but no real difference". Rainer > This will not only make code > patches easier, but I'm thinking at documentation, tests, issues, all in > one place. > > Not only contributions would be easier, but it would make things would be > more visible. Your github profile counts for many as some sort of CV. The > more&better you contribute, the more awesome you are (think job > opportunities and such). For the project, it would make it easier to see > how it evolves: contributions, issues, wiki - again, all in one place. That > is familiar to many. > > Apache takes this idea to a higher level, as far as I understand, so crazy > could be crazy-good. *Could be* - I don't know, really, I'm lacking > knowledge about how Adiscon and Apache works, although I have some idea > about both. Otis, maybe you can say some more about the advantages (and > disadvantages)? > > And I'm obviously curious about what the Adiscon guys have to say about > this. > > Best regards, > Radu > > 2013/12/11 Boylan, James <[email protected]> > > > I agree with David. As a business who developsand supports a product, I > > can't see any reason for Adiscon to do so unless they decide to no longer > > support and develop the software. > > > > -- James > > -- Sent from my mobile -- > > > > ----- Reply message ----- > > From: "David Lang" <[email protected]> > > To: "rsyslog-users" <[email protected]> > > Subject: [rsyslog] Rsyslog => Apache? > > Date: Wed, Dec 11, 2013 3:09 PM > > > > not being an adiscon person, my first question is why they would want to > do > > that? > > > > David Lang > > > > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > > > > Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:05:11 -0500 > > > From: Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]> > > > Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> > > > To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> > > > Subject: [rsyslog] Rsyslog => Apache? > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Maybe this is a completely crazy question, but has Adiscon ever > > considered > > > moving Rsyslog to Apache? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Otis > > > -- > > > Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics > > > Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > rsyslog mailing list > > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > > > What's up with rsyslog? 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PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > > DON'T LIKE THAT. > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
