[Syslog-ng-maintainers] New Debian Logging Team

[thomas at goirand.fr]

On Aug 6, 2025 20:02, Antoine Le Gonidec <vv221 at debian.org> wrote:

>

> Hey everyone!

>

> I would like to introduce a new team, that began informally

> a bit before DebConf25: the Debian Logging Team!

>

> You can find a bit of information about our goals and our communication

> channels on Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Logging

>

> This team is comprised of people sharing a common interest for logging daemons

> in Debian, and our main focuses are writing new documentation and improving

> the existing one about logging daemons, as well as providing discussion spaces

> to share tips about packaging and using these daemons.

>

> CCed to this e-mail are maintainers of logging daemons in Debian, who are

> welcome to join us if they wish, or to ignore us if they don’t care about

> documentation and communication ;)

> (more seriously, we are not going to nag at you after this first e-mail, so

> feel free to join or not depending on how you feel about this new effort)

>

> Of course, anyone sharing common interests with us is free to come and lurk

> in our IRC channel, or even take an active part in our current documentation

> effort.

>

> We don’t have a dedicated mailing-list yet, because we are waiting a bit to

> see how much activity this team is going to see. We are probably only going

> to request one if it seems it makes sense with how many we are going to end up,

> and how many topics we need to keep track of.

>

> As you might have guessed from the lack of a Salsa namespace on the wiki

> article, actual packaging of logging daemons is not part of our goals for now.

> While some of us, as individuals, might have an interest in improving the

> packaging of daemons already packaged or bring new alternatives to Debian,

> this is not what this team is about.

>

> So, if you too like logging daemons and would like to see better documentation

> for them in Debian, please make yourselves known!


What about cluster tools like vector, elasticsearch/opensearch? These are frustratingly missing in Debian.


Thomas Goirand (zigo)


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