Speaking of code signing, do I need to add my gpg key to a KEYS file or
something? As in submit it to one of you? Nick and I signed each others
keys at ApacheCon, and I got mine signed by several others there as well.


On 25 May 2014 18:14, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'll work on the code signing thing later when I get back from work.
>
> I added SimpleBenchmark, which does the same as SimplePerfTest: test the
> overhead of calling isXXXEnbled, isEnabled(Level) and logger.debug().
>
> Not sure if you're interested in the throughput numbers too, or just the
> sampled response time.
> If your intention is to compare with Log4j-1.2 and Logback we should
> probably create similar benchmarks for those libraries.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Ralph Goers 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Gary, dependencies on things used only during the build, like autoconf,
>> are ok. If the dependency is not part of the runtime there should be now
>> problem. I am pretty sure there is a Jira or an FAQ on this.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On May 25, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Over in Commons VFS we are not adding a pom dep to a jar because it's
>> license is not ASF compatible, which is ASF policy from what I understand
>> and how it has been explained on the ML. Ii sounds like the same problem
>> here.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Ralph Goers
>> Date:05/25/2014 02:26 (GMT-05:00)
>> To: Log4J Developers List
>> Subject: Re: JMH for log4j microbenchmarks
>>
>> This is a very good idea.  You really don't have a lot to worry about.
>> ASF projects can use GPL tools to build or do things like you are
>> suggesting. However, we can't ship things that are under the GPL and should
>> not commit them to svn. From what you are describing I don't think we would
>> be doing that.
>>
>> The log4j-dist module controls what is included in the release. As I
>> recall it is already excluding some things so this be easy to do. However,
>> the release zips the whole source tree, so as long as there is nothing GPL
>> there we are good.
>>
>> Fwiw, my surgery is done. I am at home and feeling ok, under the
>> circumstances.  I can only see from one eye right now so please excuse
>> mistakes.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On May 24, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I've been using JMH (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/ )
>> for performance tests recently and I'm very impressed. JMH is developed by
>> the Oracle java performance team and used internally by Oracle to
>> performance tune the JVM and java core libraries.
>>
>> I would like to use JMH to start building a suite of performance tests
>> for log4j2. I would like everyone's thoughts. First, do you like this idea
>> at all?
>>
>> Also, there is one legal and one technical aspect that I would like
>> everyone's feedback on.
>>
>> A potential legal problem is that JMH is made available under GNU GPL v2
>> with the Classpath Exception, and our Apache License v2 is not compatible
>> with GPL v2 (see http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#GPL ).
>>
>> To solve this, I want to avoid distributing JMH or our executable
>> microbenchmarks  (which would have the JMH classes) with our log4j
>> artifacts. I just want our team (and whoever checks out the log4j source)
>> to be able to use JMH to genyerate and run benchmarks when they want to.
>>
>> I'm not a lawyer though. Does anyone have experience with this kind of
>> question?
>>
>> The technical aspect:
>> I propose adding a log4j-perf module. This is where our performance test
>> code would live. JMH microbenchmarks are very simple java classes with
>> org.openjdk.jmh annotations. During the build, JMH generates code and that
>> generated code, together with all dependencies are zipped up in a large
>> uber-jar with the maven Shade plugin. You can then use java -jar
>> microbenchmarks.jar to run performance tests.
>>
>> To ensure that the log4j-perf artifacts are not included in the log4j2
>> distribution, we could simply leave out the "<module>log4j-perf</module>"
>> line from log4j2/pom.xml. The drawback is that you'd need to manually add
>> that line and build again if you want to execute microbenchmarks to test
>> something that only exists in your workspace. Is there a better way, to
>> somehow include the log4j-perf module in the build, but exclude its
>> artifacts from the log4j2 distribution?
>>
>>
>>
>


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