On 21 November 2017 at 04:53, Mikael Ståldal <mi...@apache.org> wrote:

> I also think that we shouldn't consider Chainsaw to be part of, or a
> subproject of, Log4j. It should be its own project (within Apache Logging
> Services).
>

I believe that's how it's treated already. It's directly linked on the
homepage of <https://logging.apache.org/>, and it's called Apache Chainsaw,
not Log4j Chainsaw.


> And we should try to not couple it too tightly with Log4j 2. It can depend
> on both log4j-api and log4j-core, and use classes like LogEvent from
> log4j-core. But maybe we should try to avoid using the configuration
> framework in log4j-core (the fact that it now uses the configuration
> framework in Log4j 1 makes it considerably harder to migrate away from it).


This could present an opportunity to standardize some of the log4j-core
APIs that other applications may need as well.


-- 
Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>

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