Hello all, today I submitted a patch by Andrew Lazarus to log4cxx. My feeling is that there is still some interest in log4cxx and I would like to help the contributors to submit their patches. I am waiting for JIRA access to close the issues I fixed.
I would like to invite everybody to help reactivating log4cxx! As some of you might know I am not a skilled C programmer, thats why I cannot can stay here permanently. Instead my plan is to help interested persons to learn about the Apache way and to bring in their changes - not only as contributor but also a committer later. If this strategy does not work out I am afraid that log4cxx will become food for the always hungry attic. The attic is the place where unmaintained Apache projects reside. If you are reading this and would like to help log4cxx any further, please read this first: * http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html It will explain *what* the ASF actually is. If you like what you read and if you are seriously interested in contributing patches and maybe becoming a committer yourself, please sign and fax/mail the ICLA: http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt We can only accept bigger contributions when we have this on file. If any questions ping me, I will try to respond with all my knowledge about it or refer you to the right place. As a workflow, we should use the following: - please open a JIRA issue for your change - attach a SVN diff file to it - come to the mailinglist, explain what you have changed and hopefully get some feedback from other contributors Please feel free to ping the log4cxx-dev list for any more questions. It is also a good thing to subscribe to: [email protected] The general list is the place where we discuss general issues, like for example the health of a sub project like log4cxx. My hope is that with applying the great patches of Andrew will motivate others around might find their way to this project again. All the best, Christian -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
