I've done an in person preso at two JUG in Southern California that were well received. I did not think of recording them for YouTube though.
Promoting within Apache and especially new projects would help IMO. I've also seen that folks do not know that Log4j 2 has a new modern architecture with an API. Better text on various sites like wikipedia and our own logging landing site might help. Gary On Jun 13, 2016 7:56 AM, "Matt Sicker" <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, another thing that would help is doing presentations on log4j. Myself > and a few others run a virtual java user group (and an in-person one) in > Illinois that accepts presenters from around the world for instance. Then > there's the London VirtualJUG as well which is super popular. Plus any > local JUGs. > > On 13 June 2016 at 09:54, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've noticed a big problem is that people don't realize you can use >> log4j-api the same way you would normally use slf4j-api. Plus it doesn't >> help that tons of Apache projects are using SLF4J which makes it a sort of >> tacit endorsement of it over log4j-api. >> >> Some attention on sites like Reddit or StackOverflow might help. >> >> On 13 June 2016 at 09:52, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> In spite of the fact that Log4j 2 has a very compelling story in terms >>> of feature set and performance, I get the impression that adoption is quite >>> slow. I could be wrong, but how many open source projects use Log4j 2? Or >>> even how many Apache projects? >>> >>> I propose we try to generate some ideas about what we can do to increase >>> our uptake. Some things I've been thinking about: >>> >>> * Rewrite the Wikipedia page on Log4j >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j>. It's mostly about Log4j 1.2 and >>> mentions Log4j 2 at the bottom in a footnote. That needs to be the other >>> way around in my opinion. The Wikipedia Java logging framework >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_logging_framework> page is even >>> worse. >>> * The Apache Logging site <https://logging.apache.org/> has no explicit >>> mention that Log4j 1 is EOL. >>> * Only the top page on the Log4j 1 site >>> <https://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/> mentions that the project is >>> EOL, but it does so in two modest sentences that don't visually stick out >>> and are easily ignored. At the very least the download page needs a mention >>> of the EOL and a link to the Log4j 2 project, but it may be good to have a >>> notification on every page. >>> * Can we get other people involved in evangelizing log4j 2? It would be >>> great if we can make more people enthusiastic so they write blog posts or >>> tutorials etc about Log4j 2. >>> * How can we incentivise people to convert their project to Log4j 2? >>> Maybe start a page on Projects Using Log4j 2 and mention people who did the >>> conversion by name? Or some other way? >>> >>> Thoughts? >>> >>> Remko >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >> > > > > -- > Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >
