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

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