If those alternative libraries are sufficient facades, then we could consider 
archiving this. Otherwise, we’ll look into modernizing the build for making 
more regular releases again.

> On Sep 13, 2023, at 11:04 AM, PJ Fanning <fannin...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> My view is that in the absence of regular releases and active
> development, log4j-api-scala should be abandoned.
> It is more than 3 years since the 12.0 release of log4j-api-scala. The
> lib does not appear to be commonly used. There are lots of
> alternatives open to Scala developers.
> Slf4j predominates in the Scala community and you can use the Slf4j to
> Log4j bridge if you want to use Log4j as the logging backend.
> 
> scala-logging [1] is a good alternative for anyone who currently uses
> log4j-api-scala.
> 
> [1] https://index.scala-lang.org/lightbend-labs/scala-logging
> 
> On Wed, 13 Sept 2023 at 13:46, Volkan Yazıcı <vol...@yazi.ci> wrote:
>> 
>> Matt, PJ, shall we migrate `log4j-scala` from sbt to Maven?
>> 
>> `logging-parent` 10.0.0 ships a great deal of convenience for build+release 
>> of Maven-based projects. I have already migrated `logging-parent`, 
>> `log4j-tools`, `log4j-transform`, `log4j-kotlin`, `log4j-jmx-gui` to this 
>> shared infrastructure. Unless we do certain tricks in sbt that are not 
>> possible via Maven, I would like to match `log4j-scala` with the rest by 
>> migrating it to Maven too.

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