[slf4j-user] Will version 1.8 be released in future?

[Ceki]

Hi Kengo,

Response inline.

On 02.08.2020 06:39, Kengo TODA wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> 
> Thanks for sharing such a nice and trustworthy product for years!
> I'm checking the latest activity in this project, but cannot find the 
> release plan
> so please let me confirm one thing.
> 
> About version 1.8, we have 1.8.0-beta4 in the maven central [1].
> However, the news page [2] says that we've released 1.8.0-beta5,
> even though the JIRA [3] said that this version is unreleased.
> 
> I also checked that the Git repository [4] has no maintenance branch for 
> version 1.8.
> We just have branches for 2.0 (master) and 1.7 (1.7-maintenance).
> 
> So I guess that SLF4J won't release version 1.8 anymore,
> to focus on 1.7 maintenance and 2.0 development.
> In other words, the plan to release 1.8 has been replaced with 2.0, to 
> introduce the fluent logging API.
> 
> Is my understanding correct?

Yes, perfect.

> I want to know this information, to judge which version I use in my 
> projects.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> Kengo TODA
> 
> [1] https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.slf4j/slf4j-api/1.8.0-beta4
> [2] http://slf4j.org/news.html
> [3] https://jira.qos.ch/projects/SLF4J/versions/12411
> [4] https://github.com/qos-ch/slf4j/branches/stale
> 
> ***
> Kengo TODA
> skypencil at gmail.com <mailto:skypencil at gmail.com>


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