Log4Net incubating?

Question

What does this mean "incubating"? well i know what the word means but why are the file named as "incubating-log4net-1.2.10.zip" Apache? Is log4net still under development as the last release was 2006?

Answer 1

log4net is in widespread production use in a huge variety of products, and not dead or beta by any means (and was a reimplementation of the popular log4j framework which has similar ubiquity in the Java world).

Most of the time, use of 'incubating' and 0.xx naming schemes is an oversight more than a 'here be dragons' / 'here be stuff not interesting enough to fight' indicator that one might infer.

In general, the incubating tag means that it's not being formally released as part of a beta/test/release cycle.

UPDATE: The project is and was NOT at the time of asking the question in incubating state, it graduated in 2007

Answer 2

It basically means that it isn't an official Apache project yet. Probably the project is abandoned as it has been in the incubator for so long and there are no new releases. Ask in apache mailing lists to get more information.