On 07/03/2020 22:33, Michael Osipov wrote: > Am 2020-03-07 um 21:11 schrieb Mark Thomas: >> Hi all, >> >> The Gump project has reached the point where Tomcat is the only ASF >> project using it. The Gump community is currently discussing options for >> the future. >> >> One of those options is status quo which would have no impact on us. >> >> Another option is the attic. If that were to happen, the vmgump service >> would potentially go away. vmgump has been very useful to the Tomcat >> community. It seems to have a knack of finding concurrency bugs. It >> also, recently, found a regression in OpenSSL master enabling us to get >> that fixed. >> >> If gump heads to the attic is the Tomcat community prepared to: >> >> a) take over the management of the vmgump service? >> >> b) take over the maintenance of the gump code (occasionally code changes >> are required like when Maven Central started to require https) >> >> In reality I do most of a) and b) already and I would continue doing so >> if they moved to Tomcat. >> >> Note that all of this is hypothetical at this point. The Gump PMC has >> not made a decision yet. >> >> Thoughts? > > Counter question: Why not go to https://builds.apache.org/?
Infra is unlikely to take it on. > How much of your time does a) and b) consume? Very little. Most of my time is spent on Tomcat's configuration files (which is a project responsibility at the moment anyway). > What if even more burden > is put on you, is that acceptable for you? That is always going to depend on how much effort for how much return. At the moment I'd say we are no where near the tipping point. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
