Looking for maintainer(s)

[mivano]

Hi 👋

When I was introduced to Serilog, I was hooked to this idea of structured logging. The possibilities, combined with NoSQL stores, SaaS solutions and even relational databases to store and search events was impressive. I submitted a couple of sinks, like MSSQL, ELMAH, Loggly, RayGun but also the most interesting one; Elasticsearch.

At that time (2014) I was using ES for other projects as well. So it was a great fit to store logs in (back in the times that everything was in private datacenters) and make it searchable with Kibana.

From 2014 to now; we went from many contributors, many changes and many supported .net versions to 43.7M NuGet downloads. But also around 80 open issues, 20 PRs and no active maintainers.

Not only is my time limited (which most likely applies to all of us), but my knowledge about ES is limited as well. The last time I used ES, it was version 2.0. This means I m totally out of the state of affairs with ES or even using this sink myself to store events. It is hard for me to answer any questions, assess proposed changes and keep up to date with the desired direction the sink needs to go to.

So I m looking for 1 or 2 maintainers willing to pick up the responsibility of taking care of this sink. Long long time ago, we had some plans (https://github.com/serilog-contrib/serilog-sinks-elasticsearch/issues/254) which can still be valid, but need a revival. The issue list and PR list need to be under control and decisions need to be made which ES version (and .NET versions) are to be supported.

So do you use this sink regularly, preferably already did some work on it and want to be part of the future of this sink, then please let me know!