I tend to agree here. Even if we go ahead with the repo rename, we’ll still 
need some consensus on the scope of this work.
--
Matt Sicker

> On Dec 23, 2021, at 17:11, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> hi
> 
> at the moment I am -1 too, mostly for the reasons Gary mentioned.
> Most important is that we don't have a clear goal on what we are trying to 
> achieve here. We should be very explicit of why we are doing what.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021, at 22:50, Gary Gregory wrote:
>> -1
>> We just created logging-log4j1 and converted the SVN repo into it, let's
>> stick to that. I even made a commit ;-)
>> I claim it is a good thing to start with a new repo because it creates a
>> tiny bit of friction, for a project that is still End-of-Life after all.
>> Even if it is a bit of friction to bring in old stuff from the old repo,
>> this would provide a kind of effort/value filter.
>> The concurrent consensus I see on the PMC is to fix the one listed CVE on
>> our site plus other fixes in the style of the recent 2.x fixes.
>> Bringing in all of the cruft from the old repo will give the wrong
>> impression that we actually might be merging this or that random fix and
>> feature. Which I claim is not the goal here.
>> 
>> I feel we might need an addendum or a subsequent VOTE with a stated goal or
>> charter for this repo to only provide CVE fixes (see above). Projects
>> usually have a charter, not components I do not think, but I think we
>> should have one here and put it in front and center in the README.md so we
>> can manage expectations for people finding the repo on GitHub.
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 4:35 PM Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> In https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-22654 Chris Lambertus has
>>> recommended that we can divorce
>>> the read-only SVN repo from https://github.com/apache/log4j. However, it
>>> will not be able to keep the same
>>> name as all Git repos owned by the logging project must start with
>>> “logging-“.
>>> 
>>> So this vote is to:
>>> 1. Delete the apache/logging-log4j1 repo I created last night.
>>> 2. Divorce the apache/log4j repo from SVN.
>>> 3. Rename apache/log4j to apache/logging-log4j1.
>>> 4. Create a branch named “main” from the v1_2_17 tag.
>>> 5. Make main the default branch in GitHub.
>>> 
>>> While all votes are welcome Infra needs consensus from the PMC on this
>>> vote so the result will separate
>>> binding from non-binding votes.
>>> 
>>> Ralph
>>> 
>>> PS - I’ve separated this from the previous vote thread since it was mostly
>>> discussion. If you want to discuss
>>> this please prefix the subject with [DISCUSS]

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