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On 1/13/2014 1:47 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> There's a review in Oslo to provide a configuration option to turn on
> the ability to log in a second language by specifying the locale
> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/62508/).
>
> Given the recent discussion of adding more configuration options, I
> wanted to see what people thought about providing this feature only to
> deployers using the external logging configuration file, instead of
> oslo.config.
>
> My idea is to provide a sample config file, so that a deployer would
> only have to fill in their locale, and then use the existing option to
> specify that logging configuration file to override the built-in logging
> behavior.
>
> What do you think?
>

Currently most log configuration options can be done from the 
corresponding project.conf files [1] in addition to the logging.conf 
file. In fact I think the project.conf might be a super set of logging 
features, because there are some log config options that I would not 
know how to do from the logging.conf file, e.g. instance_uuid_format.

I think the reason for this is simply user convenience. It's easier for 
the user to just set one of those log properties from the project.conf, 
and the "heavy lifting" such the creation of specific: Logger, 
LogHandler, LogFormatter, LogAdapters, etc. is done behind the scenes. 
For that reason I think having this option is useful for our users so 
they can use the new log feature we implemented.

About the idea of providing a sample logging.conf, I think most projects 
already do that, they ship a sample logging conf. I can add the 
TranslationLogHandler sample there too.

[1] 
http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content//configuring-logging.html

Thank you,

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