Github user pwendell commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/325#issuecomment-39646782 Btw @julienledem in Spark we also add some default initialization, but we do it lazily instead of statically because this allows re-routing packages to statically initialize before we try to detect whether any logging has been configured: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Logging.scala#L106
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