Hello Alexey, folks, As for big patches without discussion I have something to add. I'm sorry about another patch [1] for TPTP folks which is even bigger than the logger patch. The big size was caused by namespace deletion which was required to pass compilation on VC6 without a warning.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5750 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Alexey Varlamov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/17, Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > On 16 April 2008 at 21:59, "Nathan Beyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Alexey Varlamov < > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > 2008/4/16, Nathan Beyer <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view > > > =cm&tf=0&[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >: > > > > > I think we need more consensus on this. Is everyone in agreement > about > > > > > dumping log4cxx? Is this patch the appropriate replacement? > > > > > > > > Well, the suggestion has positive responses from me, Xiao-Feng and > > > > Ilya Berezhniuk, and no specifc opposing arguments. Let's wait last > > > > 24h, tomorrow I'll commit if no objections. > > > > > > > > > Someone has to be the bad guy. > > > > I don't think anyone saw it like that. The issues you raised - > > particularly about the confusion [see the current subject line for > > example] about what was trying to be achieved were entirely reasonable. > > > > > I don't really care to honest, but I do know that big changes > > > generally have big side-effects, so I think it's better to have > > > more consensus and discussion up front. As the size and effect of > > > the change increases, so should the discussion and number of people > > > involved increase. > > > > Indeed. In this case, too much discussion happened on the JIRA before > > Tim's comment. So discussion should probably have happened here before > > the JIRA was even opened. > > Agree, approach was far from ideal - it was a surprise to catch a huge > patch w/o preliminary discussion or even indicating intentions in > JIRA's comment. > > OK, does anyone still have a confusion about the issue? > > -- > Alexey > > > > > Regards, > > Mark > > > > > > > -- With best regards, Alexei