Because logging-log4j-plugins is released separately from logging-log4j2 and the versions would not line up.
Ralph > On Jan 16, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Mikael Ståldal <mi...@apache.org> wrote: > > Why do we need to change the version number? > > On 2018-01-14 22:11, Ralph Goers wrote: >> I don’t believe the components listed in the subject line should be part of >> the main flume build and would like to see them moved to the >> logging-log4j-plugins project. The only problem is that the modules and >> maven coordinates need to change since the version numbers will be going >> backwards. I would propose we solve that by adding “plugin” to the jar names. >
