I am not opposed to change in and of itself, but there are issues to figure out.
There is an underlying assumption that if rsyslog was an Apache projects,
something would be better.
I've seen a lot of projects over the years and a lot of changes, and I have
never seen a case where a healthy project made a major change and saw any
significant benefit from it.
I've seen many cases where a project was not healthy and changes did help
significantly.
This then raises the question of what I mean by a 'healthy' project.
The number of people who have commit rights is not a measure of a healthy
project. The Linux kernel is a healthy project by any measure, and it has
exactly one contributer (Linus)
The number of people contributing code isn't a direct measure, there are far
more significant things, and everyone would like more contributers.
It's actually easier to identify signs of unhealthy projects.
A maintainer who is hard to work with
a maintainer who doesn't have/take time to reveiw and accept patches
a maintainer/corporate owner who isn't trusted.
a codebase that's continually broken
a project that has legal/money problems
a project that's hard to build
a project with no support
There are others that I'm not thinking of now.
The only problems that I see rsyslog having are related to documentation.
for example, because of all the different packages to pull in and compile,
starting from scratch is a bit painful, but an improved document that shows all
the git repos that need to be cloned and what order you need to compile them in.
What problems do others see rsyslog having? before we start looking at
solutions, let's discuss the problems that we are trying to solve?
David Lang
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