Log4cxx was originally a sub-project of the Logging Services. In 2013 several users became frustrated that they were submitting patches but there were no committers who could apply them. The Logging Services PMC was not comfortable making them committers as that would have given them commit rights to all the Logging Services projects, which at that time were all hosted in Subversion. As a consequence Log4cxx became an incubator project in hopes those who had expressed interest would start actively contributing to the project. After 3 1/2 years this has not had the hoped for result, although it does have more activity than it did prior to entering the incubator.
The Logging Services PMC believes there is no longer a point to having Log4cxx remain in the incubator. The one active committer on Log4cxx has been voted in as a Logging Services committer and the PMC has voted [1] to move the project back to Logging Services. This is a vote for the incubator to affirm that move. [] +1 Move the project back to Logging Services [] +0 I don’t care where the project resides [] -1 The project should remain in the incubator because … [1] https://mail-search.apache.org/pmc/private-arch/logging-private/201703.mbox/browser <https://mail-search.apache.org/pmc/private-arch/logging-private/201703.mbox/browser>
