2016-06-20 13:12 GMT+03:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > > 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
+1 Regards, Violeta > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
