2011/7/26 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > The Servlet EG is starting to discuss changes to the Servlet API for > 3.1. It would be useful if the option existed to implement some of these > changes in Tomcat trunk. The benefits of this are: > - we can see how feasible the API changes are to implement > - users can try out the new APIs (assuming we do a Tomcat 8 alpha release) > > Therefore, after the next Tomcat 7 release, I would like to do the > following: > - Copy tomcat/trunk to tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk > - Start making Servlet API changes to tomcat/trunk
Do you already have some changes on your mind? I think making the branch can happen at any date. I do not think there is a need to do this "after release". The later it happens, the better. E.g. in three months. > Assuming that there are no objections to that plan, that leads to a > couple of other questions. > > 1. Should tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk be RTC or CTR? +1 for CTR. > 2. With tomcat/trunk becoming the basis for Tomcat 8, I would like to > see earlier and more frequent alpha/beta releases than we had for Tomcat > 7. That would increase the effective number of versions we are > supporting. With that in mind, should we announce end of support for > 5.5.x with the last release expected in ~12 months time? +1 Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
