+1 for b + e
+1 for logging changes not holding up 5.0.1

I'll happily do the work, including appropriate changes to the docs on the
website.

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Cheers,
Marius Volkhart



On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:21 AM Dominik Stadler <dominik.stad...@gmx.at>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> +1 for a 5.0.1 first, there were already a few useful fixes which we could
> pack into a small bugfix release along with fixes for the "known issues" in
> 5.0.0.
>
> On the actual framework to use I don't have a preference, I seem to end up
> with at least 3 different ones in any project as soon as more than a few
> dependencies are dragged in, so trying to stick to one never really works
> anyway.
>
> Dominik.
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 11:11 PM PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > If we change the logging to log4j2 then I think we should at least bump
> > the POI version to 5.1.0.
> >
> > I would prefer to see a 5.0.1 release before we make the logging change -
> > since we raised awareness of a known issue in the release notes.
> >
> > I would like to see POILogger removed. I dislike having to use a system
> > property to override the default POILogger implementation (NullLogger).
> >
> > In the past, I'd have preferred slf4j because it gives users more control
> > as to what logging implementation to use but slf4j doesn't seem to be as
> > actively maintained as it once was.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Saturday 23 January 2021, 20:39:04 GMT, Andreas Beeker <
> > kiwiwi...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Devs,
> >
> > As POI 5.0.0 is out and Marius is now a committer (*hint* ;) ), I think
> > the logging topic can be discussed again.
> >
> > So do we want ...
> > a) to keep SLF4J
> > b) or replace it with Log4j 2
> > c) or any other logging api
> >
> > ... and ...
> > d) to keep the POILogger class/facade
> > e) or directly call the Logging API
> >
> > As we have now some time until 5.0.1, I would vote for b) + e). I can
> also
> > do the replacement if no-one else dares too.
> >
> > What's your stance?
> >
> > Are dependency changes like this a major (semver) version change?
> >
> > Andi
> >
> >
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