Logging Services report 2005-02
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Projects listed in alphabetical order.

- report for the PMC

The Logging Services project has approved the graduation of the
log4cxx project from incubation. The Incubator PMC has sustained our
motion and formally graduated log4cxx on 2005-01-11.

The Logging Services project plans to move its CVS modules to SVN
during the month of July.

Election for PMC chair are expected to be held during March.

- report for log4cxx

log4cxx is stabilizing after a fairly pervasive changes to
simultaneously support wide and multibyte strings and to migrate to
Apache Portable Runtime for threading, time and network services.  A
release is long overdue since the previous release has many
significant issues which are frequently encountered by new users.
Assistance with make files is needed.  Jira issue LOGCXX-62 is
tracking the progress toward an 0.9.8 release.

- report for log4j

Log4j 1.3alpha has been released during November 2004. Several other
alpha releases have followed suit since then. We expect to release a
final version in June.

Given the large size of Chainsaw, a log viewer based on log4j, the
log4j committers have decided to create a separate CVS module for it.

- report for log4net

The Logging Services PMC would like to see the log4net project
graduate in the coming few months. A new log4net development release
is in preparation which the LS PMC has approved. We intend to seek the
approval of the Incubator PMC in the coming days. The finalised
log4net version 1.2 should be released within the next quarter.

log4net is now using a JIRA issue tracker. 


- report for log4php

The log4php project has been quiet for a while and seems dormant. The
Logging Services chairman has contacted log4php to inquire about the
state of the log4php project.