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Allow choice between STDERR and STDOUT

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by inspecting log() in node.js, where the output descriptor is hard-coded to stderr. Trace how logging output is configured and verify that callers can choose stdout or stderr while preserving the current default. Done means logs can be sent to stdout for Bamboo without removing stderr support.

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Description

I have a situation where Atlassian Bamboo is being used for deployments (Don't blame me--not my choice). Unfortunately, in log() of node.js the file descriptor is hard coded to stderr. This causes everything to come out blood red in the logs. Not exactly the best thing to see in logs.

With Bamboo the way to prevent this is to write the logs to stdout and then the output would be treated as normal log output and not display in red.

Unfortunately, my knowledge level of NodeJS is not that great, but I think I just found how this could be triggered. Expect to see a PR in a few mins.

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