Hi, On 14 March 2017 at 22:13, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 10/03/17 23:18, HANKINS Jamie wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I'm wondering if there are any plans (that have a real chance) to > > update the Tomcat Maven plug-in. The last release looks like it's > > from 2013, so my guess is no. > > None I am aware of at the moment. > > The Maven plug-in joined Tomcat with essentially a single committer > (Olivier) and while there were enough PMC members interested to vote for > releases, there committer community never really grew. It looks like > Olivier has moved on to other things. > yes sorry not much time ATM to work on that. > > The question is how to reboot this community? Is there anyone interested > in becoming a Maven plug-in committer? Are you? > > If people showed interest and backed that up with something like > producing a patch for a currently open issue I'd be willing to advocate > for giving them commit access on the understanding they would only work > on the Maven plug-in. Not to say they couldn't expand to the full Tomcat > code base, but we have a slightly higher bar for that. > > I can find a little time to help with mentoring on the 'how the ASF > works' side of things and can answer questions on Tomcat internals. > However, I'm fairly clueless when it comes to Maven. > > > There is a Tomcat 8 Maven repository at > > https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.tomcat. > maven/tomcat8-maven-plugin/3.0-r1655215. > > It's from August of 2015, and there are no docs to indicate > > functionality/stability, so I'm hesitant to mess with that. Also, it > > says 0 under usages. > > That doesn't appear to be official in any way. > definitely not https://artifacts.alfresco.com/nexus/content/repositories/public/org/apache/tomcat/maven/tomcat8-maven-plugin/ > > > The last release (2.2) in 7 mode seems to work fine with 8.X for > > deploy/undeploy. I'm guessing that won't be of much help for running > > an embedded Tomcat 8.X, though. > > It depends. I'd suggest trying it and seeing what happens. > Well ATM everything works fine except jsp. So if you don't using jsp you will not have any problem. I asked some help here regarding a classloader issue but never get any help so I reckon I gave up... > > HTH, > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Olivier Lamy http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
