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 Generally our good practice thus far was to give a notice 1 year ahead of EOL of a version of Tomcat. This plan is aligned with that practice, so I like it. "6 months" sounds too harsh. I think 3 months, or "3 - 6" months. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
