Personally, I don’t think talks do all that much. Articles are great, but IMO the best route is in trying to get other open source projects to use Log4j. Then people who start to use those other projects are forced to learn about Log4j.
Ralph > On Jul 2, 2016, at 12:15 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If we could get a talk in to something big like JavaOne, that might help > adoption, though I have no idea what kind of talks they accept from > non-Oracle people (if any). > > On 2 July 2016 at 08:57, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com > <mailto:remko.po...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com > <mailto: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. > I updated the Apache Logging page to 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. > I added the EOL announcement to the top of all main pages in the Log4j 1 site. > > * 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 <mailto:boa...@gmail.com>>
