Ron, There's a need to move log4j 1.x forward, and Ralph Goers suggested that the way to go is to re-incubate it, see [1].
Could you sponsor the project or do you want Incubator to do that? (see [2]) [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/mlpb9v15r8qzpc58xnjn99r6tf9yy0p5 [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/c2362g4m4m4y1n7zl444ncvhmfb9oy0m Vladimir