Am 20.06.2016 um 12:12 schrieb Mark Thomas:
On 15/06/2016 08:02, jean-frederic clere wrote:
On 06/14/2016 02:05 PM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
2016-06-14 10:31 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>:
On 14/06/2016 09:00, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
Le 13/06/2016 à 17:47, Mark Thomas a écrit :
Now we have a stable release of 8.5.x, I'd like to finialise the end of
life date for 8.0.x so we can publish it.
We originally said we'd do parallel releases for 6 months. That gives an
EOL date of 30 September 2016 for 8.0.x which seems reasonable to me.
Any objections to that date or suggestions for a better one?
Hi,
Just a word with my Debian maintainer hat on, Tomcat 8.0.x was shipped
with Debian 8 Jessie with the expectation it would be supported during
the lifetime of this release (until May 2018). I'm currently maintaining
with other volunteers a stable version based on 8.0.14 (with backported
security patches). Canonical does a similar job for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
based on Tomcat 8.0.32.
The early EOL of 8.0.x is impractical because, at least in Debian, major
updates like the switch to 8.5 aren't allowed for the stable
distribution.
I understand you can't maintain so many branches for a long time, but if
Tomcat 8.0.x could be security supported at least until the Debian 9
release (~April/May 2017) it would allow users following the stable
distribution to remain on a supported version of Tomcat (Debian 9 will
include Tomcat 8.5).
That is unlikely unless someone volunteers for that task.
Yes JF or myself could volunteer to do some additional limited 8.0
releases, but we'll see how it goes in practice.
We have to provide long term support for our customers, one way is to
keep 8.0.x alive here so the community can benefit our efforts.
Since it seems there is some interest in maintaining 8.0.x beyond
September, how about we announce that:
- the monthly release cycle for 8.0.x will end in September
- new features and bug fixes are unlikely to be back-ported from that
point
- security fixes will probably be back-ported
- further releases will depend on circumstances but are unlikely to be
more frequent that 6 monthly
Maybe we don't need to be too specific on the expected interval (just
dropping "but are unlikely to be more frequent that 6 monthly").
But I'm +1 with and without this variation.
Regards,
Rainer
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