I looked over the thread you included below. I can't tell from that whether the suggestion was to port log4j2. Not sure if the comment about starting log4net 2.0 "from scratch" is an indication of having it be a port of log4j2.
In my mind the biggest benefit would be to have the same architecture/feature set running on both linux and windows. Of course it would also be great if the releases were synchronized. I know a big gripe of log4net is that it's not getting rev'd. I would be interested in helping if the goal is to bring log4net in sync with log4j2. And by this I guess I mean port as that would seem the easiest and safest path to the goal. I haven't worked on any open source project in the past. I'm curious, how does this work? Who's coordinating and making the decisions? Thanks, Nick > From: bode...@apache.org > To: log4j-u...@logging.apache.org; log4net-user@logging.apache.org > Subject: Re: Why is log4net not more similar to log4j(2)? > Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:25:00 +0200 > > On 2015-09-17, Gary Gregory wrote: > > > "Patches welcome" is my motto :-) > > > Gary > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Nicholas Duane <nic...@msn.com> wrote: > > >> Sending to both the log4j and log4net mailing lists. > > >> I'm curious why log4net is not more similar to log4j(2)? Is it because > >> there is less development work being done on log4net and log4j had > >> significant changes in the 2.0 version? > > > I think I read somewhere that log4net was a port of log4j 1. > > This is certainly part of the reason. log4net was started as a port of > 1.x a long time ago. The developers (long before I joined) added some > deviations that look closer to what log4j 2 is doing (XML > configuration). > > Incidently Dominik started a discussion about log4net 2.0 on the dev > list[1] and some people expressed interest. Any hand that can offer > some help is more than welcome, so please come over and join. > > [1] thread starting with > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/logging-log4net-dev/201508.mbox/%3C03be01d0da4f%24a85aaa10%24f90ffe30%24%40apache.org%3E > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-user-unsubscr...@logging.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-user-h...@logging.apache.org >