Logging Services report 2005-08
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Projects listed in alphabetical order.

PMC Report
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* The Logging Services PMC continues to track projects under incubation: 
  log4net, log4php.

* The PMC is hoping to move all Logging Services projects to the SVN repository
  by the end of September.  A migration plan is currently under discussion.

* A BoF session on Logging Services was submitted to the conference committee
  for ApacheCon US 2005.

* In general, the PMC is pleased to report a high level of livelihood, with 
  increased development, testing, and planning levels.  There has been 
  consistent involvement and good communication with both committers and 
  outside contributors in various aspects.


log4cxx Report
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* Progress continues towards a 0.9.8 release, as tracked by JIRA
  issue LOGCXX-62.  Most major issues have been resolved.  The reamining
  work involves restoring functionality that was temporarily disabled
  while pervasive changes were made.

* The log4cxx team continues to seek additional committers among current
  contributors, and hopes to add one committer over the next month or so.


log4j Report
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* On June 23rd, log4j v1.2.11 was released.  This was primarily a maintenance
  release focused on ensuring the build process included some previously
  missing components.

* The log4j team is planning to release v1.2.12 in early September.  There
  have already been several release candidates for this version, and good
  feedback from testers.  This release contains one major new feature, a
  built-in TRACE logging level, which has long been requested by users, and
  which should allow for easier compatability with java.util.logging and
  Jakarta Commons-Logging.  The other focus of this release, which will
  hopefully be the final log4j 1.2 version, is to ensure compile- and
  run-time compatability with old JDKs.

* As soon as v1.2.12 is released and the SVN migration is complete, 
  the log4j team plans to accelerate work  on v1.3, a major new release.
  Significant work remains on log4j 1.3, but the goal of a 2005 release
  is still in sight.


log4net Report
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* The log4net project is still in incubation, but it is active.  The
  Logging Services PMC is currently voting on a new committer,
  Rob Grabowski (rgrabowski@apache.org), and the vote seems likely to pass.
  This would bring the number of active committers to 4, helping meet
  incubator exit criteria.

* The log4net committers are working towards the next maintenance release 
  with a focus on code quality and improving the available end user 
  documentation.


log4php Report
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* No report submitted, will follow up with subproject.