[TYPO3-core] New Logging API

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

Some of you have already heard about a new Logging API being developed
for 6.0

For those who didn't:
Logging in TYPO3 is complex and painfully chaotic. At T3DD11 a workshop
has kickstarted the development of rewriting the Logging for TYPO3.
After a year of great community work a new Logging API has finally been
pushed to gerrit and is waiting for your reviews:

http://review.typo3.org/13604


Demo Extension
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You can find a demo extension at:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/extension-log_example

Get it from git using:

$ git clone git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/Extensions/log_example

1. Activate extension in Extension Manager
2. Add the "Log Example" plugin to a page
3. Open the page in your browser


Unit Tests
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We tried hard to provide as much UnitTests as possible.
The gerrit changeset ships them in: tests/Unit/t3lib/log/


Documentation
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The documentation can be found as rst files in the branch
sandbox/xonx/logging of the CoreApi git repository:
http://git.typo3.org/Documentation/TYPO3/Reference/CoreApi.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sandbox/xonx/logging

$ git clone git://git.typo3.org/Documentation/TYPO3/Reference/CoreApi.git
$ cd CoreApi/
$ git checkout sandbox/xonx/logging
$ cd Documentation/Typo3ApiOverview/Logging

I have almost no experience with ReST. Can someone please support us
with rendering the rst files to something more readable (html, pdf)? Thx!


Next steps
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The Logging API is just the first step to move to a better Logging in TYPO3:

* Once the Logging API is merged to master, we will start to replace as
much old log calls as possible before feature freeze.
* There's also a new log BE module in the pipeline.
* Additional LogWriters and LogProcessors are planned to be released as
Extensions. One has already been started:
http://forge.typo3.org/projects/show/extension-log_writeremail
* We have also planned to ship a backport of the Logging API as an
extension for 4.5 - 4.7 releases.
* There are ideas to provide configuration sets for different contexts
(debugging, production, performance, ...)
* Writing a tutorial to explain the usage of Logging in depth.
* ...

-- 
cheers,
Steffen

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