> That's a reasonable position to take IMO, it's just not the position > that the Tomcat team took.
I think so ;) > The result was Tomcat 8.5 which is essentially the best of both > worlds. One could argue that Tomcat 9 should have become Tomcat 10 and > Tomcat 8.5 should have instead been Tomcat 9.0, but our > versioning-scheme has generally followed the Servlet-spec version, so > that Tomcat X+1 supports the spec version following the one that > Tomcat X supported. When you explain it that way it makes total sense, but users outside of the tomcat development circles (read maintainers/consumers of that distro's package, like freeipa) didn't know that so they assumed that it was just a regular 8.x release (and were probably confused where the 5 came from). I've been explaining that it's a fork of 9, etc but that isn't always well received which is understandable IMO. > It's important that the Tomcat team understands these outside > perspectives. We may have made a different decision given that kind of > input. I'm glad that more maintainers, etc. are becoming a part of > this community. I think it's going to improve things for everyone. I agree, which is why I'm here being vocal about it. Hopefully sharing my viewpoint will help us prevent future issues like this, or at least minimize them. > I'm looking forward to meeting you in Miami! Likewise! And thanks for the great explanation, it'll help my arguments with consumers of the tomcat package later :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
