On 27/11/2019 23:19, Rémy Maucherat wrote: <snip/>
> Well, it sounds pretty good to me but the numbers are off and it's going > to be very very confusing. It pretty much has to be: > Tomcat X supporting Jakarta EE X > Tomcat X-1 supporting Jakarta EE X-1 > Tomcat X-2 supporting Jakarta EE X-2 > And Tomcat 9.X supporting Java EE 8 with the same Tomcat API as Tomcat X > [I understand the rationale for this to be able to achieve very long > term support - and I expect the API changes will likely be rather small > anyway -, for example 8.5 and 9.0 have diverged too much to keep 8.5 > more stable, while if we had a 8.6 "trunk" to simply replace it > eventually we could have kept in strict sync with 9.0] I like it. > The only problem then (but it's a big one) is to accommodate the Tomcat > "10" supporting Jakarta EE 9 somewhere. Maybe 9.9 can be used for that > but it will still pollute a bit the 9.x message, it could be labelled as > a "Jakarta preview" or something maybe. Jakarta EE 9 is a useless > release anyway, nobody will use it and that Tomcat could almost be EOLed > immediately after a Jakarta EE 10 release. Hmm. Tricky. How about something like this? 10.0.0.M1 Jakarta EE 9 10.0.0.M2 Jakarta EE 9 10.0.0 Jakarta EE 9 stable 10.0.1.M1 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1.M2 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1.M3 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1.M4 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1.M5 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.0.1 Jakarta EE 9 some urgent bug fix 10.0.1.M6 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1.M7 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1.M8 Jakarta EE 10 dev 10.0.1 Jakarta EE 10 stable ... 10.0.n Jakarta EE 10 stable / Tomcat 10 stable / 10.0.0 is EOL Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
