Changesets that could still use your attention:
* Add a PSR-3 based logging interface
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119940/
* Enable MWLogger logging for wfLogProfilingData
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/119942/

Sumana Harihareswara
Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The structured logging RFC [0] will be up for discussion again next
> > Wednesday [1]. There is a strawman implementation in gerrit [2] that
> > is likely to be the focus of discussion unless there are other issues
> > that the reviewers find more pressing.
> >
> > At this point the most controversial aspect of my proposed
> > implementation seems to be importing third-party libraries into
> > mw-core and/or the use of composer to manage that activity. I would
> > welcome discussion of alternatives or consensus that this is a
> > reasonable approach for the immediate future that should be revisited
> > if and when a better idea is found for the general problem.
> >
> > [0]:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Structured_logging
> > [1]:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-03-19
> > [2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112699/
>
> The outcome of the discussion on this was approval by Tim of the
> general concept of using Composer to manage importing libraries into
> MediaWiki-Core. I took that as incentive to split the monolithic
> proof-of-concept patch into four smaller logical for review and
> approval:
>
> * Gerrit change 119939 Add Composer managed libraries [3]
>
> Import Psr\Log and Monolog libraries to MW-Core in a new "libs"
> directory which is managed using Composer. The includes/AutoLoader.php
> script has been modified to require the lib/autoload.php class
> autoloader script generated by Composer.
>
> * Gerrit change 119940 Add a PSR-3 based logging interface [4]
>
> The MWLogger class is actually a thin wrapper around any PSR-3
> LoggerInterface implementation. Named MWLogger instances can be
> obtained from the MWLogger::getInstance() static method. MWLogger
> expects a class implementing the MWLoggerSpi interface to act as a
> factory for new MWLogger instances. A concrete MWLoggerSpi
> implementation using the Monolog library is also provided.
>
> * Gerrit change 119941 Enable MWLogger logging for legacy logging methods
> [5]
>
> Introduces the $wgUseMWLoggerForLegacyFunctions that enables the use
> of the MWLogger PSR-3 logger for legacy global logging functions. When
> enabled wfDebug, wfDebugLog and wfLogDBError will route their log
> messages to MWLogger instances.
>
> * Gerrit change 119942 Enable MWLogger logging for wfLogProfilingData [6]
>
> Output structured profiling report data from wfLogProfilingData when
> $wgUseMWLoggerForLegacyFunctions is enabled.
>
> I got some great review feedback from Jeroen on the first patch [3].
> We were able to iterate to get to a point where he was satisfied with
> the technical implementation of the composer.json and gave it a +1.
> The second patch [4] got some comments from Tyler and Timo which I
> have tried to respond to. Tyler caught a small formatting problem in
> the third patch [5] that has been corrected. I have gotten no feedback
> at all on the final patch [6].
>
> I'd really like to see this work merged so that I can continue to
> build on it to improve the error and debug logging capabilities of
> MediaWiki. The net result if this was all merged today would be some
> classes that could be used if a deployment modified it's
> LocalSettings.php configuration to enable them. Nothing should break
> anywhere in the default case. I know that most people don't find
> logging to be sexy stuff to think about and that I'm weird for being
> obsessed with this sort of thing. I'm looking for advice from the
> people on this mailing list on how to find someone to work with me to
> finish the review of at least the first 3 patches and give +2 to get
> this initiative moving again.
>
> [3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119939
> [4]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119940
> [5]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119941
> [6]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/119942
>
> Bryan
> --
> Bryan Davis              Wikimedia Foundation    <[email protected]>
> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]  Sr Software Engineer            Boise, ID USA
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