Mailing-List: contact log4j-dev-help@logging.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Log4J Developers List" <log4j-dev@logging.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: local policy)
Message-Id: <6.0.3.0.0.20041029124623.039d36a0@mail.qos.ch>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:06:40 +0200
To: craigmcc@apache.org,
	Jakarta Commons Developers List <commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
From: Ceki =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FClc=FC?= <ceki@qos.ch>
Subject: Re: [human-assisted gump] log4j back incompatible change
Cc: Gump <general@gump.apache.org>, log4j-dev@logging.apache.org,
	velocity-dev@jakarta.apache.org, dev@ant.apache.org,
	stefano@apache.org
In-Reply-To: <f8b39ace0410282240fc35f36@mail.gmail.com>
References: <4181D01A.4040707@apache.org>
 <f8b39ace0410282240fc35f36@mail.gmail.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi Craig,

Apparently, since you removed the Log4JCategoryLog class, commons-logging=20
builds fine today. Do you have a copy of yesterday's errors for=20
commons-logging? If you do, could I please have a look at them?

Thanks in advance,

At 07:40 AM 10/29/2004, Craig McClanahan wrote:
>I can help out with over half of the gump failures.  Commons Logging
>deprecated Log4JCategoryLog a long time ago, when Log4J deprecated
>Category in favor of Logger.
>
>C-L itself hasn't used Log4JCategoryLog for several releases, so this
>change will be transparent to the vast majority of Commons Logging
>users.
>
>Craig McClanahan
>
>
>
>On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:07:38 -0400, Stefano Mazzocchi
><stefano@apache.org> wrote:
> > Ceki,
> >
> > your action
> >
> >=20
>=
 http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/logging-log4j/src/java/org/apache/log4j/C=
ategory.java?r1=3D1.88&r2=3D1.89&diff_format=3Dh
> >
> > caused a compilation failure of the following projects:
> >
> >    - commons-logging
> >    - velocity
> >    - ant
> >
> > and, as a result, caused a drop in the gump's success from 83% to 53%,
> > for more info see:
> >
> >   http://brutus.apache.org/gump/public/project_todos.html
> >
> > Now, since this is a back incompatible change, we (the gumpmeisters)
> > would like to know:
> >
> >   1) if you might be willing to revert the change if you did not intend
> > to cause such effect
> >
> >   2) if not, if you are willing to move the previous version of the tree
> > into a branch so that we can migrate the dependencies to that
> >
> >   3) if not, if you are willing to work with the offended dependees to
> > restore their success status.
> >
> >   4) if not, if you have any alternative suggestion on how to move=
 forward.
> >
> > please understand that we have no preference in which road the log4j
> > project decides to go, we are only interested in giving a chance to
> > those 322 projects that were affected by this to keep having build
> > information.
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation.
> >
> > --
> > Stefano, doing by hand what gump should be able to do in the future.
> >
> >
> >

--=20
Ceki G=FClc=FC

      For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual"
      http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/eclm/ =20


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: log4j-dev-unsubscribe@logging.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: log4j-dev-help@logging.apache.org