= Abstract =
Revival of the terminated log4php incubation with a new development
community and a goal to migrate log4php to PHP 5.
= Proposal =
Restart the terminated log4php incubation, open the log4php SVN
module to modifications and grant commit rights to the initial
committers.
= Background =
Log4PHP is a PHP 4 logging framework patterned after log4j. log4php
entered the incubator by early 2004 and was terminated for lack of
community momentum in early 2007. Knut Urdalen approached the
log4php-dev mailing list with a proposal to upgrade log4php to PHP 5
(http://marc.info/?l=log4php-dev&m=118150883217263&w=2) and several
other potential new committers have expressed interest.
= Rationale =
Log4PHP is being used in various open source and enterprise level
systems and web applications built with PHP. However, the current
code base is PHP 4 and the majority of PHP development has moved to
PHP 5. Existing users of Log4PHP may have to choose between
abandoning or branching log4php or staying with PHP 4 longer than
desirable.
= Initial Goals =
A PHP 5 release based derived from current PHP 4 code with a
reasonable migration path for existing log4php users.
= Current Status =
Log4PHP had no new commits or activity on its mailing lists for over
a year and incubation was terminated in February 2007. Several
developers have expressed interest in restarting work on Log4PHP.
== Meritocracy ==
None of the proposed committers has previously contributed code to
Log4PHP. A call for developers interested in restarting development
was made to the log4php-dev mailing list, so the proposed committers
are effectively selected on willingness and prospective merit.
== Community ==
The previous Log4PHP community has effectively faded away. Creating
a branched project outside of the ASF was discussed on the log4php-
dev mailing list, however it was considered desirable to stay within
the ASF even with the minimum community requirements that would be
necessary to graduate the incubator before a formal release could occur.
== Core Developers ==
The proposed developers are Log4PHP users who are interested in
continued evolution and health of Log4PHP.
== Alignment ==
Log4PHP is heavily inspired by Log4j and hence the Apache Logging
Services is a natural place for the project.
= Known Risks =
The most significant risk would be failure to build a sustainable
development community. As Log4PHP is currently functional on PHP 4,
there is minimal technical risk to updating the framework to PHP 5
and further development.
== Orphaned products ==
The existing code is effectively orphaned, but it is already within
the ASF. The proposed effort could only improve the situation.
== Inexperience with Open Source ==
The proposed developers have contributed to several open-source
projects and have shown a history of open discussion and civil behavior.
== Homogenous Developers ==
The proposed developers have no common employer or other affliation.
== Reliance on Salaried Developers ==
The proposed developers are not being compensated for their Log4PHP
efforts and development would not stop due to a change of funding.
== Relationships with Other Apache Products ==
Log4PHP has no dependency on other Apache products, but is heavily
inspired by Log4j.
== A Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand ==
Branching the existing code outside of the ASF was considered, but
was not seen as desirable to either the development or user community
if it could be avoided.
= Documentation =
Existing limited documentation would be migrated from xdoclet to
Maven 2. No plans for substantial distinct documentation effort.
= Initial Source =
The initial source is the existing Log4PHP code base in the Incubator
SVN.
= Source and Intellectual Property Submission Plan =
There is no anticipated bulk contributions. Anticipated development
would be incremental and covered under the developer's Contributor
License Agreement.
= External Dependencies =
No known external dependencies.
= Cryptography =
There is no known cryptography currently in or proposed for Log4PHP.
= Required Resources =
New accounts for the core developers with appropriate karma.
== Mailing lists ==
Already exist from previous incubation attempt.
* log4php-dev ([http://marc.info/?l=log4php-dev&r=1&w=2 archive])
* log4php-user ([http://marc.info/?l=log4php-user&r=1&w=2 archive])
== Subversion Directory ==
* [http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/log4php]
== Issue Tracking ==
* Would use http://issues.apache.org/jira. A new project for log4php
would need to be added.
== Other Resources ==
= Initial Committers =
* Knut Urdalen (knut dot urdalen at gmail dot com) - CLA on file
* Bachelor of Computer Science
* Technical Director at Suddenly Oslo
* Developer at the PRADO Development Team
* Leading the Norwegian PHP User Group
* Technical writings:
* Wrote a feature article for php|architect "[http://
www.phparch.com/issue.php?mid=70 Logging and Monitoring with log4php]"
* Alvaro Carrasco (alvaro at epliant dot com) - CLA on file
* Michael Schmitz (Michael.Schmitz at tietoenator dot com) - CLA in
transit
* Master of Computer Science
* Project Manager at Tieto''''''Enator, Cologne, Germany
* Contributed to various Open Source projects like CVS, SCWM,
bk2site, etc
* Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org) - CLA on file
* Logging Services PMC chair
* Contributions expected to be limited to release and build issues.
= Sponsors =
== Champion ==
* Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org)
== Nominated Mentors ==
* Curt Arnold (carnold at apache dot org)
== Sponsoring Entity ==
* Apache Logging Services PMC
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