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Verbosity parameters #45

Open zeelot opened 13 years ago

zeelot commented 13 years ago

There should be a standard way to add -v one or more times to increase how much output is generated. We might also want a -q for the opposite effect.

This is related to #39 and some discussion has already happened there but I am splitting that ticket up :)

samsoir commented 13 years ago

Definitely would be nice to have a fully verbose mode that outputs the current state of minion to STDERR. E.g.

Executing task: [ DONE ]

etc etc

(should this be a separate feature request?)

samsoir commented 13 years ago

So, STDOUT is agreed as the better target for this messaging

BRMatt commented 13 years ago

Any reasons why? Haven't checked the logs yet and it'd be good to know the reasoning for future reference

samsoir commented 13 years ago

Some minion tasks can appear to either be doing nothing or stalled as they can take over 10 minutes to produce any output. This especially happens when a number of migrations are executed together. It would be a better user experience to be able to optionally generate status output during each tasks execution.

BRMatt commented 13 years ago

Sorry, I meant why STDOUT VS. STDERR

samsoir commented 13 years ago

You could argue that verbose output to the client is not strictly an error condition. I would accept that argument. My initial suggestion was purely based on my C programming where I debug output to STDERR. STDOUT would be better, as it is easier to pipe elsewhere (if that was required or appropriate - I doubt it to be honest).