I have created https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/480 for you to review. It has many changes and merge conflicts will be painful to fix so please do not commit to master until this PR is merged.
Although I could merge this now I would prefer if you could checkout the branch on your local machines, build, and test it. I haven’t tested it with anything real yet but all the unit tests - except for the osgi module - pass. If you open this in your IDE you might have some issues with some test classes being flagged as having compile issues. This is because of the weird extra directory I had to include in log4j-api and log4j-plugins to create test jars. Please provide feedback so I can make any changes and get this merged. Ralph
