Mark, On 5/14/15 9:14 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > For some time now we have always said we will maintain three current > Tomcat versions in parallel. As we start to think about milestone > releases of Tomcat 9 soon (stable is unlikely to be until later next > year due to the Java EE 8 timescales) I think now would be a good time > to think about when to EOL 6.0.x. > > The other factor to keep in mind is that we have (since at least 5.5.x) > given 12 months notice of any EOL dates. > > With the above in mind, what do folks think to the following EOL > options? In all cases we announce the date as soon as we are happy with it. > > Option 1: Tomcat 6.0.x EOL as of 30 June 2016
+1 It's time to get people moving. Tomcat 6 has so many quirks that aren't a problem in 7+. > Option 2: Tomcat 6.0.x EOL as of 31 December 2016 -0 > The rational for option 1 is that with a 9.0.x milestone release > happening soon we need to EOL 6.0.x ASAP otherwise we'll end up > potentially supporting 4 concurrent versions. > > For option 2, the thinking is that with the earliest date for a stable > 9.0.x in the second half of next year, the end of next year we won't > really be supporting 9.0.x until then (it is very unlikely that > 9.0.x/trunk and trunk will separate before then) so the end of next year > is a reasonable time frame to work with. > > I'm currently leaning towards option 2. -chris
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