No objections from me. Remko
> On Jul 31, 2019, at 8:48, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > I implemented a logging builder pattern in the Log4j API on the master > branch. I was able to do that in a backward compatible manner by using Java 8 > default methods. Although I could implement those default methods in > AbstractLogger in the release-2.x branch, the Logger interface would no > longer be backward compatible. In doing some investigation I found > https://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2018 <https://www.baeldung.com/java-in-2018> > which showed Java 7 usage to be down to about 5%. > > I still don’t see us releasing 3.0 very soon because more modularization work > is required. So I am now wondering if we should just make the minimum > requirement for new Log4j 2 2.x releases to be Java 8. > > Thoughts? > > Ralph
