[slf4j-dev] Merging Logger and MarkingLogger

[Boris Unckel]

My last mail did not correspond to the actual changes in svn. Some of my
questions/points found answers through that.

> I intend to merge methods in MarkingLogger back into Logger with the
> understanding that the bindings for logging systems without marker
> support would simply ignore the Marker data (as was the vase prior to
> SLF4J 1.0beta8).
> Comments?

What is very misleading for users:
On
http://www.slf4j.org/download.html
one can download a *ReleaseCandidate* five. Most other open source projects
have a very conservative version numbering and (different to many commercial
software) show with the number what the state is really. (Think of JDOM
which was a very long time 0.x before release and "final").
The log4j team and JCL team currently heavily works on backwards
compatibility (I do not write "reach") - users excpect that from a core
infrastructure API. Maybe your changes are compatible for users of "Logger",
but what about users of "MarkingLogger"?

A release candidate can have bugfixes and documentation add-ons but 
interfaces should not change.

Please consider to change the version number back to 0.x and clearly state
on the homepage something like "experimental", "alpha" or "subject to
change" so everyone knows where the project stands.


Regards
Boris