Re: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Dominik Psenner
Hi Joe, good to read you and welcome on the dev list! You're free to work on issues that attract your attention. Nobody's going to force you to work on things you don't deem to be worth the effort. We've already decided to gradually drop official support for ancient .net frameworks like .NET

Re: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Tommy Parnell
I too added myself to this list from the blog post. I am https://github.com/terribledev I usually have a few days a month to help with these kinds of projects. Been using log4net since 2011. Mostly interested in performance things, and helping on .net core compatibility. That being said always

Re: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On 2016-10-18, Joe wrote: > I'm responding to Stefan's call-to-arms, though I have limited time > available, currently probably not more than a day or two a month. Which may be more than Dominik and I have spent in some month. Welcome! > Given my lack of time I would probably want to get involve

Re: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Stefan Bodewig
Welcome Tommy I'm sure we can use your expertise if we'd want to handle our platform zoo in an easier way :-) Also, since you mention .NET Core. I've created some test builds[1] as precursor for the next release - this was before we started to merge Joe's pull requests. AFAIK nobody has verified

RE: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Joe
Thanks for the response. I don't think there's any rush to remove the ifdefs for obsolete platforms ; the important thing is to know we don't need to add them for new code. As a minor example I recently contributed code which measured elapsed time using DateTime.UtcNow: I'd probably have used a

Re: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Dominik Psenner
You've got the point. Obviously this all greatly depends what needs to get done. Let me outline this with an example: Requirement: we want log4net to have an API where users must not invoke IsLogLevelEnabled to check if a log level is enabled and we want to have this without changing the curre

Re: Response to call to arms

2016-10-19 Thread Dominik Psenner
It's great to see new faces! Welcome Tommy! On 2016-10-19 14:20, Tommy Parnell wrote: I too added myself to this list from the blog post. I am https://github.com/terribledev I usually have a few days a month to help with these kinds of projects. Been using l