Hi, I like the idea of move to master 9.x.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 10:12 Daniel Cunha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi!! > > personally, I like the idea to create a maintenance branch for TomEE 8.x > and move master to 9.x. > > > Em qui., 28 de jan. de 2021 às 08:50, Jean-Louis Monteiro < > [email protected]> escreveu: > > > Hi, > > > > We started the work on Jakarta EE 9 a few months ago. So far we are in > good > > shape by only applying the transformer in our code. But it looks like we > > are facing some limitations. > > > > 1/ libraries we are using Tomcat, Mojorra, EclipseLink to name a few > > already have Jakarta EE 9 compliant versions, which are more complete > than > > what we could do with the transformer. > > > > 2/ only creating zip files is restrictive. People can't use the > > EJBContainer to unit test their code because we don't publish Maven > > artifacts. TomEE embedded and other flavors of TomEE are not available > > anymore. > > > > I'm wondering if at this moment, it would not be better to create a > > maintenant branch for TomEE 8.x and move master to 9.x > > > > We could just do the dependency upgrades in there and any API changes due > > to dependency upgrades. > > > > We would only keep working on TomEE 8 and cherry pick or backport > > everything into TomEE 9.x so we have minimal changes between the 2 and we > > don't spread our effort on multiple source trees. > > > > What do you think? > > -- > > Jean-Louis Monteiro > > http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro > > http://www.tomitribe.com > > > > > -- > Daniel "soro" Cunha > https://twitter.com/dvlc_ >
