On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:30 PM Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Gary, > > *Package Name* > > Once every couple of months I found myself helping out people > for JAR Hell problems since they included wrong Log4j artifact. > The artifact and package names of Log4j 1 and Log4j 2 are > pretty similar looking. Hence I really encourage you to explicitly > state the version in artifact and package names. For instance, > log4j3-core and org.apache.logging.log4j3, etc. It goes without > saying, this will also aid SEO too, which is a pain right now. > IMO, we should change the package names and artifact IDs to contains a "3" postfix, like we did in HttpComponents for version 5, so probably "log4j-core3", "log4j-api3" and so on. To be discussed... > > *Allowing Batches in Appender Interface* > > Is it also possible to extend the Appender interface such that in > addition to append(LogEvent), batched append(LogEvent[]), > append(LogEvent[], int offset, int length) are allowed as well? > Sounds OK, PRs welcome. Ralph, any thoughts? Gary > For instance, in log4j2-redis-appender I needed to implement > my own AsyncAppender logic to push the serialized LogEvent's > to Redis in batches. > > *Merging log4j2-redis-appender to master* > > Would you consider merging log4j2-redis-appender > <https://github.com/vy/log4j2-redis-appender> to master? > The first step would be to change the license to the Apache License v2. Gary > > *Merging log4j2-logstash-layout to master* > > Given its garbage-free superior performance and schema > customization support, would you consider merging > log4j2-logstash-layout > <https://github.com/vy/log4j2-logstash-layout/tree/json-generator> to > master? We can rebrand it as the > next JSONLayout and provide pre-cooked schemas for common > use cases, for instance, a schema of the old JSONLayout, a > schema for the pretty common Logstash event layout v1 > <https://github.com/logstash/log4j-jsonevent-layout>, etc. > > Best. > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 10:01 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Considerations for 3.0: > > > > - Currently targeting Java 8, seems OK to keep this for now. > > - Remove deprecated code > > - Make BC-breaking changes as we see fit to improve impl. > > - ? Update root package to include "3" to allow Log4j 1, 2, and 3 to > > co-exist peacefully on the claspath. Perhaps org.apache.logging.log4j3. > > - Do we need a compatibility layer for 1.2 to 3.0 and 2.x to 3.0? > > - Where can we use java.time? > > - Is it a goal to have Maven modules with NO optional dependencies? I > think > > so. > > - Play nice in the Java 9 module system > > - Continue to break up current Maven modules > > - How can we make Core smaller? > > - Should we redo our config code to use something like Jackson or Commons > > Configuration? We have a lot of config code... Not sure if everything you > > can do in XML is doable in JSON and YAML. YAML is gross IMO but some > people > > like it. > > > > What else? > > > > Gary > > >
