Mailing-List: contact dev-help@commons.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Commons Developers List" <dev@commons.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy)
Message-ID: <4E429E5C.3000102@qos.ch>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:06:04 +0200
From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2VraSBHw7xsY8O8?= <ceki@qos.ch>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64;
 rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Commons Developers List <dev@commons.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [general] Apache + Meritocracy [Was: [logging] logging vs slf4j]
References: 
 <CAPVuaYtNquTL3551JCLEhdJj76=zYCVKzikA6=jOVkhHpLsULA@mail.gmail.com>
 <4E428255.6070107@qos.ch>
 <CACZkXPyZDOkObnQqnT47NudnS3JEuZAayFs+YH9a5Wi7B1EwnQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: 
 <CACZkXPyZDOkObnQqnT47NudnS3JEuZAayFs+YH9a5Wi7B1EwnQ@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

On 10/08/2011 3:59 PM, Gary Gregory wrote:
>
> "Creating a branch of commons-digester using SLF4J/jul/log4jv2 will
> not convince anyone."
>
> I am sorry, but deciding for other people what they are going to think
> is no way to go either.
>
> Experimenting by branching is leading by example. This is a good
> option when a discussion on a mailing list stalls or is caught in a
> loop. Some people can see it all in the abstract and in words but
> trying code out can help everyone see an issue clearly.

"Creating a branch of commons-digester using SLF4J/jul/log4jv2 will
not convince anyone" because it is a trivial exercise. The sentence
should *not* be generalized to all experiments and branches. It applies
only to replacing one logging API with another fairly similar logging
API.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@commons.apache.org