What is the difference between EOL and the way things are now. Are you proposing that bugzilla would be closed?
Ralph > On Jul 4, 2015, at 2:30 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > we are actively working on Log4j 2.x, but Log4j 1.x hasn't been touched > since the last release. I was doing the last one, and I can't see I will > find the time or motivation in any time to roll out another one. Nobody > else stood up since then. That's OK, because I can observe the community > adapting Log4j 2. No numbers, just feelings. > > I would like to propose to mark an EOL date for Log4j 1.x by the end of > the year. As we don't fix things (most likely) with 1.x, this is not > about "maintenance" at all. The future date might be more or less our > signal that we want to actively help our users migrating to 2.x. > > We can use the remaining time to write or improve documentation, maybe > even write some migration tool. > > In the announcement we should highlight the history of Log4j 1, it's > problems and why we think Log4j 2.x is the best way to log in Java > today. > > Let me know what you think about this idea. All feedback - committer or > not - is welcome. > > I suggest we leave this discussion open until we reached an agreement or > at least one week, so everybody got a chance to look into this. > > Regards, > > Christian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-h...@logging.apache.org
