Given their own stated goals, if/when this all falls in a heap, the developers who apparently need some overlord to tell them how to format code will have no one but themselves to blame.<p>The groups own stated reason for being was to document what the various major frameworks did and document the most common ways of achivieving goals.<p>Note: most <i>common</i>, not most flexible or best technically.<p>The influence of existing frameworks/libraries has also tainted their proposals: the logger interface defines the log levels as STRINGS. That they share the same names as syslog is irrelevant once they're no longer integers - you can't exactly use "info" vs "debug" as a simple "greater than level X" test.