Planning Version 7

[chris-peterson]

Potential Changes in v7.0

Breaking Changes

• default to shorter, snake_case field names. Provide configuration options to retain existing behavior and/or further customize field naming
• changes to default behavior: RemoveNewLines: true
• don't log Count_ automatically when using Time/Timers.Accumulate -- require some sort of opt-in
• default precision for ms is whole numbers only. can opt-in for fractional values
• nullable reference types - may result in compile-time errors
• remove deprecated/[Obsolete]s

Enhancements

• Remove dependency on Ben.Demystifier - project has gone dormant for > 3 years
• Add ability to control precision for timings -- with this provide a minimum threshold under which fields are automatically suppressed
• Ensure non-standard SI units are explicit in field names, e.g. ms in TimeElapsed
• Add Warn/Error methods that default to appending. Consider removing SetToX methods
• Introduce a concept of "essential fields". This set can be extended by callers and is used by a new Summarize() method that will shrink a logged message to just the essential fields. This is useful to manage logging volumes, e.g. for a web request that is fast and successful, don't log a ton of granular timings, etc; but rather, the "essential fields"

[chris-peterson]

Restructure Configuration, e.g. move new line concerns under formatting, etc.

[chris-peterson]

Reduce public API surface. e.g. there are some constructors that should be made internal/private

[chris-peterson]

Have branches/PRs create and publish pre-release NuGet packages (perhaps a manual/optional job?)

[chris-peterson]

Implement long-standing feature requests

• Feature: Add ability to suppress logging of individual properties #15
• Feature: IncludeJson #40
• Add short name convention for Exception_* #46