I can help with validating an RC vote but I really more interested in Java 8 and beyond.
Bringing this in a 2.3.x branch and not in 2.x-release if applicable might be quite confusing. Gary On Sat, Sep 8, 2018, 10:14 Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > A request to integrate https://gitlab.com/thiesw/log4j2-Java6-extras < > https://gitlab.com/thiesw/log4j2-Java6-extras> was made in one of the > pull requests. This project targets Log4j 2.3. According to Nexus 13% of > the downloads last month were for 2.3. So the questions are: > 1. Do we want to incorporate this enhancement against 2.3? > 2. Do we want to include it against master or release-2.x? > 3. Do we want to fork the repo into an ASF repo and take ownership as a > separate component? > 4. If we include it against 2.3 are there other bug fixes that should be > applied? I believe there might have been a security issue that was fixed in > a later release so that would have to be incorporated. > 5. Can we still perform a release against Java 6? I think my machine is > still set up for it but it has been a long time since I tried. > > If we do not want this component I have told the author that he can’t keep > the package names as they are but I would hate to have him rename them if > we would be taking it. > > > Ralph > >
