I'm ok with this - we do still have some Java EE 7 work and maintenance going on, so I would want a branch for that at least. I think a tomee-7.x branch for EE7 and master being used for Java EE 8 could work.
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I like the 8.0 and 8.1 version numbers you propose. We just need to make that clear in the docs and on the download page. Jon On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Mark Struberg <strub...@yahoo.de.invalid> wrote: > Hi folks! > > I'd love to start the tomee8 branch. > There are a lot of components which are ready to go. > > And I also had an idea about how we could very eagerly publish binaries to > play with. > > I imagine to have 2 goals: > > 1.) TomEE-8.0: this will be the 'development train'. > It will contain JavaEE8 parts (mostly) and some JavaEE 7 parts still. > We do not need to wait until we are fully EE8 compatible and certified, we > can just go on and publish this stuff as long as we CLEARLY state that we > are not yet fully EE8. > > 2.) TomEE-8.1: once we reach full EE8 compatibility we switch over to 8.1. > > The main benefit of this approach is that we do not need to wait with > doing a release until all the features are EE8 but we can eagerly push > releases which are perfectly fine for people to use already. > > > Wdyt? > > LieGrue, > strub
