I believe log4j was initially donated to Apache by IBM and Ceki was a part of it there. On Sep 21, 2013 9:20 PM, "Ralph Goers" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > > > > >
