On 10/12/2011 04:14 AM, Federico Simoncelli wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Subhendu Ghosh"<sgh...@redhat.com> >> To: "VDSM Project Development"<vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:57:00 AM >> Subject: Re: Proposal to add message IDs to vdsm.log >> >> >>> Need to solicit responses on the list. >>> Dan, Saggi, Edu, Federico, please reply with your thoughts on this. >>> >>> We already know that in the next 2 versions the code is going to >>> change *a lot*. So it's not clear what the value of doing this at >>> the present moment is (adds pains for something that will change >>> 10 times in the next year or so). >>> >> >> If you are going with codes, it makes sense to add msg ids from the >> beginning, >> not as a retrofit. Yes, some message numbers may not be used when >> code changes >> discards a message, the overall process should be more consistent. > > My concern about this is that to be useful we must commit to the meaning > of the IDs and in a case where not only the code changes a lot but also > the internal flow changes (even though the APIs are consistent) we'll > often need to provide new IDs (and remove old ones where needed). > Therefore I feel that I won't be using IDs at all if I need to check what > vdsm version I'm using to grep for an ID in vdsm.log. > > We could postpone the message IDs into the future. In my opinion the only > problem at the moment is bad timing. > If there are plans to implement also an application that is going to > collect the message IDs, analyze them and deal with their constant change > then I'll agree on having them now. > > Why not put our effort into more urgent matters as for example make > vdsm/vdsmd.in 100% compatible with fedora using better tools. > (PS. if anyone is interested in this please contact me) > > We should maintain a list of changes that we would like to make so that we > can discuss them and rate them. >
For some reference: http://cee.mitre.org/ Common Event Expression -- Subhendu Ghosh Red Hat Email: sgh...@redhat.com _______________________________________________ vdsm-devel mailing list vdsm-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/vdsm-devel
