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    "Combine the warning and error log levels into a single alert level for node operator notifications"
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    "Needs rebase and has merge conflicts across logging macros",
    "Author marked as draft pending #34038 and has been silent for over six months"
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    "Approved with reservations: prefers keeping warning/error and adding critical, but fine with merging (ryanofsky)"
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      "P4 because it is a minor logging macro cleanup simplifying developer choices between warning and error",
      "Retains deprecated aliases and provides cosmetic consistency without fixing a bug or altering node safety"
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  "summary": "This pull request merges the LogWarning and LogError logging levels into a single LogAlert level (BCLog::Level::Alert). It retains LogWarning and LogError as compatibility aliases, updates developer notes, and converts src/node/blockstorage.cpp call sites via a scripted diff.",
  "problem": "Developers and node operators face ambiguity between LogWarning and LogError, where the only historical distinction was whether the node was shutting down, which node admins already observe directly.",
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    "ryanofsky prefers keeping error and warning levels as conditional logs and introducing a new unconditional LogCritical macro instead of combining them into LogAlert"
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   "summary": "Approved with reservations; ryanofsky gave Concept -0 preferring a critical level instead, but accepted the change.",
   "reason": "ryanofsky submitted an approved code review but noted Concept -0, outlining an alternative approach keeping warning/error levels separate and adding a critical level instead.",
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    "ryanofsky: 'Code review ACK 4ce720ba... Concept -0. This PR is definitely not the change I would make, but it seems fine and helps decrease the gap between way the macros are actually used and the way they were originally intended to be used.'"
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    "rationale": "P4 because this is a minor cleanup to logging API ergonomics. As ajtowns states, 'There's little benefit in having two error levels... so this PR replaces LogWarning and LogError with LogAlert.' It offers cosmetic consistency across logging calls rather than addressing bugs or stability."
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  "card": "This PR simplifies the logging interface by consolidating LogWarning and LogError into a single LogAlert macro and adding BCLog::Level::Alert, while retaining the old macros as deprecated aliases. The change resolves ambiguity regarding when to log an error versus a warning when alerting node operators. It represents a low-priority internal cleanup for the utility logging subsystem. It is currently in draft awaiting PR 34038, has merge conflicts, and has been silent for over six months with an approved code review from ryanofsky noting reservations on concept direction."
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