What would it take to make git primary instead of a mirror?

Ralph


On Mar 18, 2013, at 5:09 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> There's a Log4J mirror on GitHub at https://github.com/apache/log4j . Would 
> it be possible to also mirror Log4J2? 
> 
> We've recently switched to Log4J2 on one of the big projects that I am doing. 
> Now we need to patch a few things for our work in a way that is likely not 
> going to be accepted back to Log4J. Specifically we want to short-circuit 
> Log4jLogEvent.getSource to return a fixed String. We are using AsynchAppender 
> and 'Log4jLogEvent.getSource' is a noticeable performance bottleneck for us, 
> and we currently don't see a better way around it (ok, to be completely 
> honest, we just don't have the cycles to refactor Log4J2 properly). So the 
> idea was to keep a GitHub fork and merge periodically with the master copy.
> 
> Any thoughts/comments on exposing "2" on GitHub. 
> 
> As an Apache member I can probably ping infra myself. But wanted to talk to 
> the 'logging' community first.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrus

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