[caiman-discuss] Default logging verbosity level ?

[Sarah Jelinek]

Hi Jan,

We used to have the debug data going to a separate log, correct? It 
seems like this is useful data to capture as you note, but in the 
standard install log may not be appropriate. I think making the default 
logging level higher so we get more data would be good to do, but 
perhaps we should consider the separate debug log?

thanks,
sarah
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jan damborsky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> during last couple of months when triaging and evaluating
> incoming Slim install bugs, it turned out that install
> log file was really good starting point and source of
> valuable information helping to speed up process
> of evaluation and finding bug root cause.
>
> However, it also turned out that in most cases running
> installer with default logging level was insufficient
> and it was necessary to ask reporter to increase verbosity
> level and run installer again in order to obtain necessary
> information. The process of collecting the data took
> more time and sometimes we found out that reporter was
> encountering the issue which was not easy to reproduce
> and in some cases we had to wait long time before we were
> lucky to hit the problem again.
>
> This is the reason why we are thinking now about changing
> the default debugging verbosity level to something else.
> Of course, from debugging point of view it would be the best
> to have as much information captured as possible.
>
> The flip side of this approach is that in that case user
> who looks into log file is provided with amount of data
> which are relatively meaningless for him without deeper
> investigation how particular pieces are designed to work.
>
> Any comments/opinions are appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Jan
>
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