A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Knut Urdalen <kn...@php.no>]

Hi all,

The last official release of log4php was made over 4 years ago [1]. A 
PHP 5 version has been started [2], but no one are working on it at the 
moment. Earlier this year it was also voted on [3] terminating the 
log4php incubation. It's sad to see log4php fail here, because this tool 
is really needed out there, so therefor I'll volunteer to become 
maintainer of log4php which means that I will focus on the following tasks:

* Complete the PHP 5 port of log4php with minimal BC breaks
* Improving log4php performance
* Adding more functionality
* Complete unit test suite using PHPUnit 3
* Overhaul the home page [4] and improve the online documentation [5]

My main motivation here is that I've used log4php in several enterprise 
level web applications where it has paid off, and still want to do that, 
but the PHP 5 version need some work and an official release. I also did 
a study of log4php's inner workings when I wrote an article about it for 
php|architect [6] back in 2005 so I know the code base pretty well already.

I'm not sure about any decisions that has been made about log4php at 
Apache, but I'm here, willing to take over the maintainer role. Please 
cast your votes.

Best regards,
Knut Urdalen

[1] http://www.vxr.it/log4php/download.html
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4php/trunk/src/php5/log4php/
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/general@logging.apache.org/msg00827.html
[4] http://logging.apache.org/log4php/
[5] http://logging.apache.org/log4php/documentation.html
[6] http://www.phparch.com/issue.php?mid=70

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

["Marco V." <ma...@apache.org>]

+1

-Marco

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Knut Urdalen <kn...@php.no>]

Curt Arnold wrote:
> I should have commit access to the log4php repo as an Incubator PMC 
> member, though I'd want to give a heads up before committing anything 
> to a retired project.  If you can put together a proposal to restart 
> the project and are willing to sign CLA's 
> (http://www.apache.org/licenses), then it should be able to get the 
> initial contributors commit rights within a week or so.  
I just signed and snailmailed the CLA [1] to the Apache Software Foundation.

Best regards,
Knut Urdalen

[1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.pdf

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Knut Urdalen <kn...@php.no>]

Curt Arnold wrote:
> I should have commit access to the log4php repo as an Incubator PMC 
> member, though I'd want to give a heads up before committing anything 
> to a retired project.  If you can put together a proposal to restart 
> the project and are willing to sign CLA's 
> (http://www.apache.org/licenses), then it should be able to get the 
> initial contributors commit rights within a week or so.  I haven't 
> done much with the logging services Wiki 
> (http://wiki.apache.org/logging), but you may be able to use that to 
> collaborate on the incubator proposal.
Thanks for the help so far. I'll look into the formalities.

Knut

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

On Jun 11, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Knut Urdalen wrote:

> Alvaro Carrasco wrote:
>> I'm very interested on helping out. If you start discussing your  
>> ideas on the mailing list (we can still use this mailing list,  
>> right?), I will join in the discussion and work on the code. I can  
>> also help with the php5 version, the unit tests, and the docs.
> Cool! Let's put our heads together. But we need to know where to  
> put our code and place all our discussions. I really hope we can  
> continue using the current infrastructure with mailing lists,  
> website and Subversion repository.
>

I should have commit access to the log4php repo as an Incubator PMC  
member, though I'd want to give a heads up before committing anything  
to a retired project.  If you can put together a proposal to restart  
the project and are willing to sign CLA's (http://www.apache.org/ 
licenses), then it should be able to get the initial contributors  
commit rights within a week or so.  I haven't done much with the  
logging services Wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/logging), but you may  
be able to use that to collaborate on the incubator proposal.

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Knut Urdalen <kn...@php.no>]

Alvaro Carrasco wrote:
> I'm very interested on helping out. If you start discussing your ideas 
> on the mailing list (we can still use this mailing list, right?), I 
> will join in the discussion and work on the code. I can also help with 
> the php5 version, the unit tests, and the docs.
Cool! Let's put our heads together. But we need to know where to put our 
code and place all our discussions. I really hope we can continue using 
the current infrastructure with mailing lists, website and Subversion 
repository.

Regards,
Knut

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Curt Arnold <ca...@apache.org>]

On Jun 11, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Alvaro Carrasco wrote:

> Knut Urdalen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The last official release of log4php was made over 4 years ago  
>> [1]. A PHP 5 version has been started [2], but no one are working  
>> on it at the moment. Earlier this year it was also voted on [3]  
>> terminating the log4php incubation. It's sad to see log4php fail  
>> here, because this tool is really needed out there, so therefor  
>> I'll volunteer to become maintainer of log4php which means that I  
>> will focus on the following tasks:
>>
>> * Complete the PHP 5 port of log4php with minimal BC breaks
>> * Improving log4php performance
>> * Adding more functionality
>> * Complete unit test suite using PHPUnit 3
>> * Overhaul the home page [4] and improve the online documentation [5]
>>
> ....
>
> Hi,
> I'm very interested on helping out. If you start discussing your  
> ideas on the mailing list (we can still use this mailing list,  
> right?), I will join in the discussion and work on the code. I can  
> also help with the php5 version, the unit tests, and the docs.
>
> Alvaro
>

The termination of the incubation should have resulted in these lists  
being shut down and redirected to general@incubator.apache.org and I  
reiterated the request a month or so ago, but nothing ever happened.   
I think this is the best place, but in the unlikely event the list  
goes down, we can move the discussion to general@logging.apache.org.   
I'll post a message there to let the broader Logging Services  
community that there are signs of life in log4php.

The other Logging Services projects are in the midst of moving to  
using Maven 2 for build and documentation.  If you are considering on  
working on docs, I'd suggest using that to build the web content.  I  
can jumpstart that from the other logging services projects.

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Alvaro Carrasco <al...@epliant.com>]

Knut Urdalen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The last official release of log4php was made over 4 years ago [1]. A 
> PHP 5 version has been started [2], but no one are working on it at 
> the moment. Earlier this year it was also voted on [3] terminating the 
> log4php incubation. It's sad to see log4php fail here, because this 
> tool is really needed out there, so therefor I'll volunteer to become 
> maintainer of log4php which means that I will focus on the following 
> tasks:
>
> * Complete the PHP 5 port of log4php with minimal BC breaks
> * Improving log4php performance
> * Adding more functionality
> * Complete unit test suite using PHPUnit 3
> * Overhaul the home page [4] and improve the online documentation [5]
>
....

Hi,
I'm very interested on helping out. If you start discussing your ideas 
on the mailing list (we can still use this mailing list, right?), I will 
join in the discussion and work on the code. I can also help with the 
php5 version, the unit tests, and the docs.

Alvaro

Re: A request to become maintainer of log4php

[Michael Schmitz <Mi...@tietoenator.com>]

+1