[dev] Proposal: Deprecate horde/thrift, re-think horde/scribe

[Ralf Lang]

Hello,

I looked into the Horde/Thrift and Horde/Scribe packages as both are in 
the dependency chain for horde/log (and almost nothing else).

I propose to:

- Deprecate horde/thrift for H6

It is a pear packaging and autoloading hack around a very outdated 
version of the apache thrift client.
As of composer, we can simply depend on a more recent version of 
apache/thrift and be done with it.

- Update or deprecate horde/scribe

Either:

- Move the ScribeHandler from horde/log to the scribe package
- Make it depend on a recent version of apache/thrift natively
- Modernize our scribe client implementation

or

- drop Scribe support from horde

Facebook Scribe is no longer available as a maintained open source software.

I do not know if there was or is a sufficiently interesting use case 
behind that integration. Facebook themselves have moved from "real" php 
to hack

For cloud-native logging options, I would rather look into logstash or 
fluentd integration.

-- 

Ralf Lang
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