[rsyslog] FYI: funding rsyslog development

[Rainer Gerhards]

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> From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of david at lang.hm
> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 9:06 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] FYI: funding rsyslog development
> 
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> 
> > Again, journald is devastating in this regard, as it assigns a
> definite
> > end-of-life on *widespread* use of rsyslog, so my argument "let's
> wait,
> > time will work for us" all of the sudden was totally blown away... It
> is
> > also devastating, as it pushes rsyslog into a strictly commercial
> user
> > base in the long term, and so fuels the question why there is any
> sense
> > in providing help to commercial users without getting funding from
> them?
> 
> It is an interesting question as to how much RedHat is going to be
> pushing
> this, especially in the face of such widespread complaining from
> sysadmins. I don't think they want to have to be the sole source for
> linux
> logging any more than Adiscon does, especially since the journal
> proposal
> doesn't come anywhere close to satisfying the needs of the RedHat
> Enterprise customers.
> 
> I really wonder how much this proposal has the support of RedHat, and
> how
> much is just LP.

That's of course something to think of. I really don't know how Red Hat works
internally, but I would *speculate* that some rough strategic line is
conveyed to the team. On the other hand, there are lots of indications that
it is just LP (if looking closely, what I have done the past two days ;)).

HOWEVER, given the fact that this is so tied in into systemd, this alone is
probably a selling point (and this tight integration is probably one thing
that I really don't like about the whole idea ... it feels a bit like
becoming locked in on the whole set of technology).

Rainer