[HADOOP-18654] Remove unused custom appender TaskLogAppender

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: common
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Target Version/s: 3.4.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

TaskLogAppender is IA.Private and IS.Unstable.
Removing it before migrating to log4j2 as it is no longer used within Hadoop. Any downstreamers using it should use RollingFileAppender instead.

• Assignee: Viraj Jasani
• Reporter: Viraj Jasani
• Created: 07/Mar/23 03:12
• Updated: 27/Jan/24 08:36
• Resolved: 15/Mar/23 16:48

Description

TaskLogAppender is no longer being used in codebase. The only past references we have are from old releasenotes (HADOOP-7308, MAPREDUCE-3208, MAPREDUCE-2372, HADOOP-1355).

Before we migrate to log4j2, it would be good to remove TaskLogAppender.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5457