On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 12:20 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 27/02/2024 10:57, Rémy Maucherat wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:12 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> All, > >> > >> When I look at the current change logs there isn't much there to justify > >> a March release. There are a couple of open bugs of which one looks > >> likely that there is an actual issue to be fixed. > >> > >> That said, I'm unlikely to be in a position to tag 11.0.x until w/c 11 > >> March. The change log may look different at that point. > >> > >> It is probably too early to make a decision but I wanted to float the > >> possibility of skipping the March release. That would mean we'd probably > >> need to make the final 8.5.x release in April. > > > > We don't need to always release all branches every time. > > Good point. > > > For example, 11 already has two useful fixes right now: support for > > Java 17 (one could want to verify it), then the FFM fix I made (using > > the wrong loader in one location means it simply breaks depending on > > how OpenSSL is loaded, so that's bad). But these two are not in the > > other branches. > > Ack. Those are good reasons for an 11.0.x release. > > I just checked the dependencies - there are no updates at the moment. > > > As for a final 8.5, I would say it is not mandatory if there's nothing > > useful in the changelog by the end of March. There's always going to > > be a final final fix needed anyway. I started skipping some backports > > to 8.5 since "regressions, who knows". > > I was just thinking .100 was a nice point release to end on ;)
+1 :D Rémy > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
