Hello, I think it is time to discuss the future of log4j 1.x seriously.
Honestly I was surprised how quick log4j 2 appeared. Under the assumption it takes longer I patched 1.x a little bit and we have started to refactor 1.x into some smaller jars (I would say it is progressed to around 80% - some minor glitches and a first release remaining). But with the increasing interest of people on log4j2 I was wondering if we should really put any more effort into log4j1. It is hard to build for most (thus the refactoring) and compared to log4j2 its really not so good. We are a small team and we could make log4j2 a great success if we would bundle our powers and stop releasing 1.x series. On the other hand, not everybody can switch to 2.x in a second. So what to do? the usual process is to tell people a "end of life" of 1.x series and do some bugfixes. I am not sure if that makes much sense, as the release cycles were pretty slow in the past and some bugs are more hard to fix than the bring benefit (now as we have lo4j2). I would have most fun to stop maintaining log4j1 and step aboard to log4j2. But of course, we have users. What do others think on that matter? Cheers Christian PS: I put Ivan on CC as he always has good ideas, but I am not sure if he is subscribed to log4j-dev --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
