Tomcat 6 End of life plan
Hi all, I'm wondering if there is any plan regarding the EOL of Tomcat 6. Debian Jessie is due to be released next year and should be supported until at least 2017. If Tomcat 6 was to be EOLed during this time frame the Debian maintainers would have to support it without the help of the upstream developers which is not desirable. In this case it might be preferable to drop Tomcat 6 from the next Debian release. Do you know how long Tomcat 6 will be supported? I guess that's somewhat related to the first stable release of Tomcat 8? Emmanuel Bourg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Tomcat 6 End of life plan
On 11/04/2014 05:29, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is any plan regarding the EOL of Tomcat 6. Debian Jessie is due to be released next year and should be supported until at least 2017. If Tomcat 6 was to be EOLed during this time frame the Debian maintainers would have to support it without the help of the upstream developers which is not desirable. In this case it might be preferable to drop Tomcat 6 from the next Debian release. Do you know how long Tomcat 6 will be supported? I guess that's somewhat related to the first stable release of Tomcat 8? Generally, we keep 3 major version in development. So at the moment that is 6, 7 and 8. I'd expect a 6.0.x EOL once we start thinking about Tomcat 9. When we do EOL it we will give at least 12 months notice. Best guess is that Tomcat 9 work will start towards the beginning of next year, the EOL announcement will be towards the end of next year will EOL being end of 2016. Those dates are only guesses though at this point. A lot of it depends on the timing of the Java EE 8 specs. Mark - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Tomcat 6 End of life plan
2014-04-11 15:29 GMT+04:00 Emmanuel Bourg ebo...@apache.org: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is any plan regarding the EOL of Tomcat 6. Debian Jessie is due to be released next year and should be supported until at least 2017. If Tomcat 6 was to be EOLed during this time frame the Debian maintainers would have to support it without the help of the upstream developers which is not desirable. In this case it might be preferable to drop Tomcat 6 from the next Debian release. I would not expect it to last into 2017. There is also no automated testsuite for Tomcat 6, so it is easier to break things when backporting (and requires more review). It is already known that the next version of ECJ compiler does not run on Java 5 anymore. My personal feeling is that I would expect an EOL announcement sometime this year (ApacheCon EU in late autumn?), which gives 1,5 more years, until end of 2015. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
