Oh - did you mean it was running 4 years before the logging project was formed? Yes - as Scott pointed out it was first part of Jakarta, which was a catch all for all Java projects (except stuff like Cocoon which fell under the XML projects).
Ralph On Sep 21, 2013, at 10:16 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > According to wikipedia and http://www.apache.org/history/timeline.html the > ASF was incorporated in June 1999. Where did you get 4 years later from? > According to http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/changes-report.html the > first release of Log4j was Oct 15, 1999. > > Ralph > > On Sep 21, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > >> >> >> Ralph Goers schrieb: >>> That is pretty awesome. Note though, that the first release of Log4j was in >>> 1999. >> >> Interesting. It was running 4 years before ASF. >> Where the folks from the original charter working on the pre-asf >> versions too? >> >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>> On Sep 21, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >>> >>>> Folks, >>>> >>>> doing the research for a new article, I realized the Apache Logging >>>> Services project has been founded in december 2003: >>>> http://logging.apache.org/charter.html >>>> >>>> This is going to be 10 years in a short while!! >>>> >>>> This is absolutely awesome! Especially because we still have our Scott >>>> and I see Jacob pinging the users list from time to time! It means, our >>>> two fellows are sticking to the project for 10 years too and still help us! >>>> >>>> I believe we should do something cool, and be it a blog post only. >>>> Anybody got ideas? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Christian >>>> >>> >
