Pluggable logging backends

[michaelklishin]

People keep asking for it. We should make Lager dead easy to use with RabbitMQ. Or even consider switching to it entirely.

[willejs]

👍

[willejs]

@michaelklishin are there plans to implement this any time soon? I am very interested in it!

[michaelklishin]

@willejs we are pretty busy with other things. It should be very realistic to ship this with 3.6.0.

[michaelklishin]

@willejs that said, #128 is something we can finish by early may. Might give you some options.

[willejs]

Cheers @michaelklishin its good enough that this is on the horizon 😄 . Adding this issue to the 3.6.0 milestone would be cool 😉

[willejs]

@michaelklishin sorry to keep bothering you! Is it on a roadmap? Is there anyway to speed this up, apart from learning erlang? ;) I'l donate to the project in any way if i can!

[videlalvaro]

There's this already that can help a bit: https://github.com/hyperthunk/rabbitmq-lager I'm using it on a plugin that I'm building

[michaelklishin]

@willejs this is not getting any attention yet for one reason: we are a tiny team. It's still on the roadmap for 3.6.0 and we'll see if we can squeeze it into the list of things for July.

[willejs]

I understand, hence apologising! July would be great!

[willejs]

@michaelklishin me again :) Hows this looking?

[michaelklishin]

@willejs it will not be in 3.6. However, now that we've moved to erlang.mk for the build system, introducing new dependencies is trivial, so this becomes easier.

[michaelklishin]

There were logging changes in Erlang/OTP 18.1, which 3.7 will likely require, that make me wonder if Lager is really necessary for this to work.