On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Katherine Hale wrote:
Hello! I have checked out the sandbox via SVN, I'm familiar with ANT
& test cases and all that good stuff. The readme said I should post
here to contribute. If anyone wants to send me information about
exactly where to submit a contribution that would be useful.
Thanks!
Kathy
The best approach is to discuss your ideas, requirements, plans,
possible contribution etc on the mailing list before starting to
code. The ASF is all about community developed software, it is much
preferable to start with openly discussed ideas and then code then to
drop a substantial body of code and expect the community try to
comprehend it. It is very helpful to have the design discussions on
the mailing list for future reference. There are some parts of log4j
that were dropped in without any prior discussion which makes them
hard to support and enhance.
Have you looked at LogMF in the extras companion? LogMF provides a
static utility class to prepare logging requests using
java.text.MessageFormat. The signatures of LogMF were designed to
offer vararg like behavior to users of JDK's prior to JDK 1.5 and can
take advantage of varargs with JDK 1.5 and later if you hit a pattern
that wasn't supported. LogSF is like LogMF, but uses a formatter
similar to that provided in the discontinued log4j 1.3 development.
There had been a LogF in the sandbox earlier that used
java.util.Formatter which was introduced in JDK 1.5. Development was
suspended, but it could be resurrected anytime there is interest.
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