On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 11:52 PM, 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. > I updated the Wikipedia page on Log4j. Feedback welcome. Still more work needed to show Log4j 2 configurations and code examples... > 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 >
