I have to point out that all of this is exactly why the project moved to the incubator from the logging project. While all the logging projects are obviously related by what they do, the language and implementation differences make it difficult for committers to cross over from one project to the other so it was hoped going to incubator would signal people interested in the project to get involved.
Having said that, Log4j 1.x has barely had any life for years, was recently marked as end-of-life and still has a huge number of users using it and periodically asking for fixes that will never happen. It is still the most used logging framework. While Log4j 2 is in much better shape, we too have a hard time attracting committers. We get lots of people submitting one time patches but very few stick around. I don’t know if it is just because working on logging isn’t as sexy as working on a NoSQL thingy or what, but all the logging projects have trouble attracting new committers, even though they still seem to be quite popular and people still seem to expect them to magically have new releases. Ralph > On Jan 7, 2016, at 5:31 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 6:16 AM, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > >> ... >> Your lack of mentors is probably the biggest issue on the incubator side. >> Without mentors, you have no one to steer you through graduation. Though >> Marvin raises a good point - you're coming from an existing TLP, not only >> would incubation be optional if the logging TLP chose to bring you in, but >> having the backing of logging likely means there are other existing members >> out there that can help you through incubation. >> > > They arrived from an existing TLP, and have been around for a LONG time. I > don't think Mentors are the problem at all. ... there is simply no > community. (and Mentors will not and cannot solve that) > > IMO, close it down. > > Cheers, > -g > > ps. as ALv2 source, of course anybody willing can clone it elsewhere, but > may need to change the name. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
