The old plan file is a little out of date. These are the things that I
think are still outstanding from the old plan:
1) Lots more unit tests.
2) Documentation needs to be enhanced with more configuration examples
and much more hand-holding.
Documentation for each appender
Documentation for each example
log4net Features
Howto build log4net (NAnt & Visual Studio .NET)
3) Examples need to be available in C# and VB where possible. Some
Managed C++ examples would be nice.
4) Investigate a WMI appender.
Of these I think that 1 is always going to be around, but we could do a
much better job even if we port over the tests from log4j. The
documentation has improved, but as in 2 we don't have documentation for
each appender beyond what is in the SDK docs. We should have
documentation for our configuration schema that goes in element by
element. We have some VB examples and I think one managed C++ example,
we could always do with more examples in more languages, but we also
need to document them. I don't think that 4, the WMI appender, is a
priority now, if it is easy to do then we can add it as a sample
appender.
The plan had some 1.3 features:
5) Replace internal logging (LogLog) with log4net itself. Replace
ErrorHandler and OnlyOnceErrorHandler with alarm style extension.
6) Strategy based rollovers. Unlike the RollingFileAppender, Apache
Avalon's logkit has a nice and clean implementation for rolling files.
See the org.apache.log.output.io.rotate package for exact details. Their
implementation is based on strategies which are sub-components of
appender.
7) Cope with appender failure. Add a FallbackErrorHandler that
implements the ErrorHandler interface such that a secondary appender may
be specified. This secondary appender takes over if the primary appender
fails for whatever reason.
Of these 7 is the most difficult to get right and probably the most
important. It may require significant changes to the log4net core to
implement. We may also need to coordinate our implementation with other
log4x projects.
Thoughts?
Nicko
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 16 June 2005 18:02
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: http://logging.apache.org/log4net/roadmap.html
>
> I noticed this file has been "coming soon" for several
> months. I recall seeing a road map when 1.2.0 beta 8 was on
> the website. Any word future features or things that still
> need to be done?
>
>
