On Saturday, February 1, 2014, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2014, at 14:49, Matt Sicker wrote: > > Yeah that would work. Nashville huh? My co-worker is from there too, neat. >> >> In regard to the async and such, I think that'd be a great idea. One of >> the selling points of log4j over logback is performance, right? >> > > I always add the reconfiguration thing. Logback migth lose log events when > re-configured hot, log4j doesn't. > > Also its more flexible (imho) due to its plugin mechanism LOG4J2-506 is a good example of how flexible the plugin system is: a user wants to do binary logging, and it turns out that with just a little bit of custom code they can achieve what they need... > Matt Sicker > > On Jan 31, 2014, at 0:52, Nick Williams <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> > wrote: > > > On Jan 30, 2014, at 9:25 PM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > On 30 January 2014 18:01, Nick Williams <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> > wrote: > Matt, > > Do you want to share a hotel room? I know it would certainly help my > finances to split one, and depending on whether you get employer support, > it should probably help yours as well. I'm planning on being there all five > days (staying in the hotel Sunday night through Thursday night)--you? > > Sharing a hotel room sounds like a good idea. I'm not sure on which days > I'll be there, but it would most likely be almost if not the same ones. > > > Okay. I'm registering and booking my travel tomorrow (Friday, which I > guess is actually today now). Should I book the hotel, too, and then you > can just pay me for your part depending on how many nights we split it? > That arrangement. works fine for me. > > By the way, I'm in central time, which is why the website say > America/Chicago. I'm actually in Nashville, though. > > > I was planning on putting together several CFPs. Originally I was > thinking about these four: > > - An Intro to Log4j 2.0: A New Generation of Apache Logging > - Log4j 2 in Web Applications: A Deeper Look at Effective Java EE Logging > - Logging to Relational and NoSQL Databases with Log4j 2 > - Extending Log4j 2: Writing Custom Appenders, Filters, and Layouts > > I really like those ideas. You've effectively modularized all the ideas I > had for CFPs. I'd be interested in doing any of those, but I have the least > experience with the myriad Java EE technologies out of those four. > > > Why don't you write up a CFP for the first and fourth ones? Be sure to > include the performance studies mentioned on the website and information > about the Levels and their extensibility, the logger interfaces, etc. in > the first one. I'll write up the CFPs for the second and third one. Before > we submit them, let's trade them with each other for review, proofreading, > and comments. How about we plan on exchanging them about 6 p.m. CST Friday > evening and then submitting them by 10 p.m. CST Friday evening. Sound good? > > Look forward to working with you on representing Log4j at ApacheCon. > > Nick > > > Before you write up your CFPs, lets coordinate and come to a consensus on > which of us is doing which CFP. Having two people there covering Log4j > would be great! > > I've only drafted out a couple ideas so far, but they match up with one as > your first one, and the other a union of the remaining. > > Nick > > On Jan 30, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Matt Sicker wrote: > > I know I'm not a committer (yet), but I would be interested in doing a > talk on logging. I'll see if I can get employer support as well. Is anyone > else interested in putting together a CFP or two? I'd like to cover the > neat new features in log4j, why we're more awesome than SLF4J, how to use > logging effectively (e.g., using aspects to inject trace logging, using > informative log messages, effective usage of the API, when to use different > levels, using markers, complex logging configurations, etc), how to help > make log4j compatible with other logging APIs not already implemented, > creating additional components (I.e., appenders, filters, layouts, etc.), > and many other ideas. Obviously that's too much to cover in one talk, but > it's a good place to start examining what topics to cover and at what > levels of expertise. > > Matt Sicker > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:29, Nick Williams <nicho...@nicholaswilliams.net> > wrote: > > Guys, let's show up for Apache Logging! They're hurting for CFP's right > now. Rich Bowen at ApacheCon assures me that if money > >
