[slf4j-dev] Is slf4j a community project or just open source?

[Newcomb, Michael-P57487]

I ask this because there seems to be several suggestions/enhancements
that get shot down by the slf4j crew as 'too hard' etc...

Those argument/excuses simply don't fly in community projects because
someone is always willing to do them. I'm not talking about changing the
whole api, I completely agree with taking those types of changes slow
and cautiously, however...

My own bug/enhancement request
(http://bugzilla.slf4j.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74) is to simply add the
following to code to log4j bridge...

Level getLevel()
{
  return slf4jLogger.isTraceEnabled() ? Level.TRACE :
    slf4jLogger.isDebugEnabled() ? Level.DEBUG :
    slf4jLogger.isInfoEnabled() ? Level.INFO :
    slf4jLogger.isWarnEnabled() ? Level.WARN : Level.ERROR;
}

It was promptly closed with the excuse:

"Given that Category class in log4j-over-slf4j is merely a wrapper
around an
SLF4J logger, and given that SLF4J loggers do not have a level, it is
impossible to implement the getLevel() method.

Moreover, as mentioned in the docs [1], log4j-over-slf4j is not a
perfect log4j
API replacement."

'Impossible'? It would take about 5 seconds to get that into the
baseline and it would not harm the bridge at all. In fact it would make
it a little more complete.

So, I'd like to know if the slf4j project is a community effort or just
an open source project.

Either one is fine, it just clears up expectations (for me anyway).

Thanks,
Michael