On 15/06/2016 08:02, jean-frederic clere wrote: > 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.
Since it seems there is some interest in maintaining 8.0.x beyond September, how about we announce that: - the monthly release cycle for 8.0.x will end in September - new features and bug fixes are unlikely to be back-ported from that point - security fixes will probably be back-ported - further releases will depend on circumstances but are unlikely to be more frequent that 6 monthly Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
