On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:45 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 11/12/2020 06:58, Martin Grigorov wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:50 PM Igal Sapir <isa...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:58 AM Christopher Schultz <
> >> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mark,
> >>>
> >>> On 12/10/20 06:39, Mark Thomas wrote:
> >>>> The proposed Apache Tomcat migration tool for Jakarta EE 0.1.0 is now
> >>>> available for voting.
> >>>>
> >>>> This is (potentially) the first release.
> >>>>
> >>>> It can be obtained from:
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/jakartaee-migration/v0.1.0/
> >>>>
> >>>> The Maven staging repo is:
> >>>>
> >>
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetomcat-1291/
> >>>>
> >>>> The tag is:
> >>>> https://github.com/apache/tomcat-jakartaee-migration/tree/0.1.0
> >>>> cbada3204bf9c43ca0cf481cd88c7521690b30a0
> >>>>
> >>>> The proposed 0.1.0 release is:
> >>>>
> >>>> [ ] -1: Broken. Do not release because...
> >>>> [ ] +1: Acceptable. Go ahead and release.
> >>>
> >>> Do we even need (a) a release and (b) a VOTE?
> >>>
> >>> I once heard Ross say that there was an ASP project (Subversion?) that
> >>> never had votes; they only had releases. That seemed to cut-down on the
> >>> red-tape required to get things out into the world. I can't find a
> >>> reference for that, now.
> >>>
> >>> Since this is a developer tool and not a runtime library or anything
> >>> like that, maybe we can just say "YMMV, this is available any time you
> >>> want it"?
> >>>
> >>> That said, I have no objections whatsoever with holding a vote. I am an
> >>> unsigned "0" on the vote itself; I have not even downloaded the source
> >>> let alone attempted to migrate a project using it.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm a +0 on this one.  Like Chris, I also did not even download nor
> tested
> >> that tool.
> >>
> >> Did we use that tool to migrate the Tomcat examples?  Were they all
> >> migrated successfully?
> >>
> >
> > No. The examples were migrated manually, i.e. their source code was
> > migrated.
> > The tool migrates binary files (.war,.jar, .class). It is useful when
> your
> > application depends on third party libraries which still use javax.**
>
> Martin is correct, the examples were migrated using a package rename in
> the IDE.
>
> The JSTL JARs (used by the examples webapp) were migrated with this tool.
>

Thank you both for clarifying.  My question just shows why at this point I
should remain a +0 on this one.

Igal



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