Mark, On 3/1/16 5:12 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > To summarise where I think this discussion is going: > > - Create 8.5.x from 9.0.x with the following changes > - revert all changes to spec APIs
I would argue that anything that has been added (in TC9) can stay; only revert the removals and possibly any deprecations. > - make any necessary changes to work with Java 7 > > - Release 8.0.x and 8.5.x in parallel for ~6 months then stop 8.0.x > releases Does this have implications for whether or not we can claim spec-compatibility? Tomcat 8.5 would be servlet-3.1-except-for-that-Java-7-support-thing... so can we claim that Tomcat 8.5 officially supports the servlet 3.1 specification? Do we even care? > - If users report problems caused by removal of a deprecated API in > 8.5.x, restore it. > > Did I miss anything? Any additional concerns to address? -chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
