On 06/14/2016 02:05 PM, Rémy Maucherat wrote: > 2016-06-14 10:31 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > >> On 14/06/2016 09:00, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: >>> Le 13/06/2016 à 17:47, Mark Thomas a écrit : >>>> Now we have a stable release of 8.5.x, I'd like to finialise the end of >>>> life date for 8.0.x so we can publish it. >>>> >>>> We originally said we'd do parallel releases for 6 months. That gives an >>>> EOL date of 30 September 2016 for 8.0.x which seems reasonable to me. >>>> >>>> Any objections to that date or suggestions for a better one? >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just a word with my Debian maintainer hat on, Tomcat 8.0.x was shipped >>> with Debian 8 Jessie with the expectation it would be supported during >>> the lifetime of this release (until May 2018). I'm currently maintaining >>> with other volunteers a stable version based on 8.0.14 (with backported >>> security patches). Canonical does a similar job for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS >>> based on Tomcat 8.0.32. >>> >>> The early EOL of 8.0.x is impractical because, at least in Debian, major >>> updates like the switch to 8.5 aren't allowed for the stable >> distribution. >>> >>> I understand you can't maintain so many branches for a long time, but if >>> Tomcat 8.0.x could be security supported at least until the Debian 9 >>> release (~April/May 2017) it would allow users following the stable >>> distribution to remain on a supported version of Tomcat (Debian 9 will >>> include Tomcat 8.5). >> >> That is unlikely unless someone volunteers for that task. >> > > Yes JF or myself could volunteer to do some additional limited 8.0 > releases, but we'll see how it goes in practice.
We have to provide long term support for our customers, one way is to keep 8.0.x alive here so the community can benefit our efforts. Cheers Jean-Frederic --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
