So Debian decided for us: tomcat8 is not provided anymore in the
current Debian stable (buster) so looks like we need to start putting
tomcat 9 in our tests.

On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 5:16 PM Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
<vali...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Thanks,
> Caty
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:27 AM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > On 13 Apr 2019, at 12:59, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 11:39 AM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Since it’s a vote I think I am -1 to support both Tomcat 8.x and 9.x at
> > the same level (I could change that to a -0 if everyone else agrees).
> > >>
> > >> For 2 reasons:
> > >> * I feel we’re don’t have enough agent power to support so many configs
> > - we already have too many IMO, and each new config increases the test time
> > exponentially.
> > >> * I’d really like that we continue having a single version for each
> > infra server in our docker-latest job.
> > >>
> > >> So I’m proposing one of the following 2 options:
> > >>
> > >> Option 1: Tomcat 8.x stays the supported version
> > >> =======
> > >>
> > >> * Continue delivering XWiki on Tomcat 8.x by default. For ex the Docker
> > image continue to be on Tomcat 8.x, see the tags on
> > https://hub.docker.com/_/xwiki?tab=description
> > >> * Offer a preview for Tomcat 9.x but don’t consider it as being
> > officially supported. This means mentioning the “preview” in the various
> > docs.
> > >> * On the test side, this means adding it to docker-unsupported
> > >>
> > >> Option 2: Tomcat 9.x becomes the latest supported version
> > >> =======
> > >>
> > >> * Consider that Tomcat 9.x is now the latest version of Tomcat, i.e.
> > make it go in the docker-latest build (ie all tests execute on it).
> > Executed daily.
> > >> * Consider that Tomcat 8.x is now an older version of Tomcat (but still
> > supported) and move all Tomcat 8.x tests to docker-all (ie only smoke tests
> > on it). Executed weekly.
> > >> * Upgrade the official Docker image to use Tomcat 9.x. More generally
> > upgrade all distributions to use Tomcat 9.x. Note that we support only 1
> > version of Tomcat in the Docker images we distribute.
> > >>
> > >> The only question I’m asking is whether Tomcat 9.x is stable enough for
> > using it in production vs Tomcat 8.x (8.5.x to be precise). Note that
> > Tomcat 8.5.x contains backports from Tomcat 9.x AFAIK and the main
> > difference is just the supported Servlet spec (AFAICS).
> > >>
> > >> So if we wish to make a move, I’d prefer option 2 but I don’t know if I
> > know enough about Tomcat 8.5.x vs Tomcat 9.x in production to make an
> > educated decision. I’d be curious to know if users would be ok to run
> > Tomcat 9.x in production. Now we would still support 8.5.x so users who
> > want to stay on Tomcat 8.5.x can.
> > >>
> > >> WDYT?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> -Vincent
> > >>
> > >> PS: I thought I saw a jira issue being closed on this topic, did I
> > dream it or did you anticipate the vote results? ;)
> > >
> > > Providing a Debian package which work with Tomcat 9 does not make it
> > > officially supported as you said.
> >
> > For me it kind of does because I don’t see how we would officially provide
> > a package and not test it (and if we test it then it’s officially
> > supported).
> >
> > Unless we explicitly mark is as experimental so that users know that it’s
> > not supported when they use it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> > >
> > >>
> > >>> On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:53, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:42 PM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:35, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 5:07 PM Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net>
> > wrote:
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On 12 Apr 2019, at 17:00, Thomas Mortagne <
> > thomas.morta...@xwiki.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Hi devs,
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> tomcat9 package is now available in Debian repositories so I would
> > >>>>>>> like to start providing xwiki-tomcat9-* Debian packages of XWiki.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Nothing complex so far but it if we provide an official tomcat 9
> > >>>>>>> oriented package it would also make more sense to add Tomcat 9 in
> > >>>>>>>
> > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy/ServletContainerSupportStrategy/
> > >>>>>>> (only Tomcat 8 right now).
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Another argument is that it's the current recommended stable
> > version
> > >>>>>>> from Tomcat point of view so people will use it more and more.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> WDYT ?
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> In principle it’s good but it means doing a lot more tests to
> > officially support it and we’re already doing a lot. So I’m not very
> > inclined to add new config tests. It adds a lot of hours to the build. I’d
> > prefer that we keep officially supporting only a single version if we can.
> > Same as for jetty for ex.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> BTW could you provide the URLs for the various debian repos
> > (oldstable, stable, unstable) so that we can check the precise Tomcat
> > versions?
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tomcat9 so 9.0.16. It's
> > >>>>> available in the stable branch trough backport repository (stable
> > >>>>> branch never get new major version directly).
> > >>>>
> > >>>> So it seems there’s only an “unstable” version FTM. I would wait till
> > there’s a “stable” version at least. We could add it to our “unsupported”
> > docker tests that execute once a month though. WDYT?
> > >>>
> > >>> No as I said there is a stable package, you just have to enable stable
> > >>> backports. There is also a testing version.
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> What’s your need for adding support for it now, since debian doesn’t
> > have a stable support for it yet?
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> BTW I also noticed that https://packages.debian.org/sid/tomcat8
> > doesn’t exist anymore. It’s been removed? This link is in our doc at
> > https://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/SupportStrategy/ServletContainerSupportStrategy/
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> This is the URL for sid only which is the unstable branch. Not really
> > >>>>> sure if it's like this on purpose or if it's a mistake but it will
> > >>>>> continue to be available for a very long time in the stable branch
> > for
> > >>>>> sure anyway. On Tomcat side there is no date announced for 8.5.x end
> > >>>>> of life.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> This link used to work so it’s been removed. Not sure what we should
> > do.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Thanks
> > >>>> -Vincent
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Thanks
> > >>>>>> -Vincent
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Here is my +1
> > >>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>> Thomas Mortagne
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> --
> > >>>>> Thomas Mortagne
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> Thomas Mortagne
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thomas Mortagne
> >
> >



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Thomas Mortagne

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