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[Gustavo Niemeyer]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:49 PM, William Reade
<william.reade at canonical.com> wrote:
> I think there are two distinct issues here. First off, on reflection, I
> don't think we should need to put the package prefix on log messages in
> "main" packages at all; all that does is clutter things up. But I don't
> think we should change the general policy of including package context
> in other log messages.

I'd do a quick data acquisition before trusting that feeling. How many
of the log messages are ambiguous, in the sense that a quick "grep"
can't spot its location, when in doubt?

Gut feeling is that this catches about 100% of the cases, which means
dumping that information is hurting the user experience for everybody
in exchange for a cost that is very low on the developer side. That's
an opinion, though, obviously.

> If we can get agreement on a small and clearly addressable tweak here, I
> will put it on a card in the backlog and we'll be able to prioritize it
> in context; if cost:benefit is good enough it'll get done. However, I'm
> reluctant to commit to a timeframe; it's got some pretty healthy
> competition re 13.04 priorities.

I can only imagine!


gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net