Without going into details, I'd like to see a 1.1.2 as a conservative release that only fixes bugs (as you plan). The API and behavior should have no surprises (maybe adding synchronized will have unexpected side-effects in the behavior of clients). Then I would like to see a start on working with a 1.2/2.0 frame of mind that can be more aggressive. That or declare the component dead I suppose but we'd need to point to an alternative like Log4J 2.
Gary On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Neidhart <thomas.neidh...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi all, > > I think the logging component is almost ready for a (long awaited) 1.1.2 > release. It fixes several bugs, especially a nasty deadlock in > WeakHashtable, which was requested by several people already. > > There are two issues for which I would like to get more feedback before > starting a RC: > > * LOGGING-135: Thread-safety improvements > For the Log4JLogger and the LogKitLogger, I did implement the double > checked locking idiom from Josh Bloch for the getLogger() method. > Now this only works safely for Java 5+, but I was hesitating to make > these methods synchronized as they are used everywhere in the > adapter. > > * LOGGING-144: LogFactory ignores Throwable > There are several throw/catch(Throwable) in the code, where certain > exceptions like ThreadDeath are silently ignored. I provided a > patch, but would like some people to review it before applying it. > There are no reports about problems in the wild, so we could also > postpone this fix. > > Thanks, > > Thomas > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
