Blame Gary for not commenting in JIRA, which lead me not to comment in
JIRA. I guess that makes me a Lemming!

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Nick Williams <
[email protected]> wrote:

> This can be confusing, following both this email chain and the bug
> comments. :-P
>
> In case you have not already seen it, a couple hours ago I posted my
> response to your earlier comment in the bug as opposed to in this email.
>
> N
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> On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Paul Benedict wrote:
>
> Gary, I think it's a losing battle to keep adding levels. No matter what
> we decide, there are levels we haven't thought of yet. Besides, each level
> requires some mapping in the adapters when we mimic other logging
> frameworks -- it will add more work. I am rather content with the levels we
> have now.
>
> Paul
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hm, I can see having an API that let's in custom "int" levels would
>> satisfy some cases. But why not consider adding more built-in levels? See
>> the thread on the ML.
>>
>> Apache HTTPD 2.2 has 8 levels:
>> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#loglevel
>>
>> Apache HTTPD 2.2 has 16 levels:
>> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#loglevel
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Paul Benedict (JIRA) <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>     [
>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-41?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13614354#comment-13614354]
>>>
>>> Paul Benedict commented on LOG4J2-41:
>>> -------------------------------------
>>>
>>> I don't support departing from Java enums. We should keep a strict and
>>> limited set of provided levels. To help others who definitely believe they
>>> need custom levels, we should provide (1) a method that takes an int that
>>> identifies their level and (2) a custom strategy that knows how to deal
>>> with it.
>>>
>>> > Extensible Log Level
>>> > --------------------
>>> >
>>> >                 Key: LOG4J2-41
>>> >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-41
>>> >             Project: Log4j 2
>>> >          Issue Type: Improvement
>>> >          Components: API
>>> >            Reporter: Ralph Goers
>>> >
>>> > It is desirable to have the Level be an enum. However, it is also
>>> desirable to let users add new log levels. These goals are in opposition to
>>> each other since enum classes are final. In addition, adding new levels
>>> implies adding new methods to the Logger interface (or some counterpart to
>>> it). This would be unworkable.
>>>
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