Back porting of Log4j2 is good idea. To understand performance gains, Has anybody in community performed load test on 13.07 release branch? If so, it will be nice to get some statistics.
Regards Anil Patel On Aug 20, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <jacopo.cappell...@hotwaxmedia.com> wrote: > Thanks to all of you for your valuable feedback. > Based on all your comments I would like to: > 1) do NOT switch 13.07 to Java 7: in fact 13.07 already works with both Java > 6 and Java 7; but the switch would *require* Java 7 and this is probably not > a good idea since the release branch is already one year old > 2) do the upgrade to Log4j2: as mentioned by Adrian, this could cause some > issues to sys admins but the benefit of running a faster and more reliable > logging framework seems a valid > 3) wait a few weeks before preparing for the 13.07.01 release (i.e. sometime > in September) in order to give time to test and fine tune the Log4j2 > configuration > > Regards, > > Jacopo > > On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Jacques Le Roux <jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> > wrote: > >> Le 19/08/2014 23:36, Christian Geisert a écrit : >>> Am 19.08.2014 15:34, schrieb Jacopo Cappellato: >>>> Before I start the process of preparing the release files for the first >>>> release of the 13.07 series and call a vote on it I would like to get your >>>> feedback on a couple of topics. >>>> >>>> Should we backport to it the recent switch to Java 7? >>> What does this mean exactly? >>> Should it run with Java 7 (including passing all tests)? Yes, of course >>> ... actually is does, I just checked. >>> >>> Should Java 7 be the minimum requirement to run it? I'm not sure on this >>> one ... about which commit are you talking? >> >> If we copy all from trunk, there we forced to use Java 7 (in macros.xml) >> >>> >>>> Should we backport to it the recent update to Log4j2? >>> I haven't followed this changed closely but it sounds good and "No more >>> missing log entries due to logger overflows" sounds actually like a >>> bugfix to me ;-) >>> >>> +1 for this change >> >> Hè Christian, you are quite right! :) >> >> Jacques >> >>>> The main reason I am asking this is that once we release the first release >>>> out of 13.07, for sure we will not backport the aforementioned upgrades >>>> (because they are not bugs); however the 13.07 releases will stay with us >>>> for at least 2 years and it would be nice to do the migration to these new >>>> technologies now. >>> >>> Christian >>> >>> >
