On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:50 PM Igal Sapir <isa...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:58 AM Christopher Schultz <
> ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>
> > Mark,
> >
> > On 12/10/20 06:39, Mark Thomas wrote:
> > > The proposed Apache Tomcat migration tool for Jakarta EE 0.1.0 is now
> > > available for voting.
> > >
> > > This is (potentially) the first release.
> > >
> > > It can be obtained from:
> > >
> >
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/tomcat/jakartaee-migration/v0.1.0/
> > >
> > > The Maven staging repo is:
> > >
> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachetomcat-1291/
> > >
> > > The tag is:
> > > https://github.com/apache/tomcat-jakartaee-migration/tree/0.1.0
> > > cbada3204bf9c43ca0cf481cd88c7521690b30a0
> > >
> > > The proposed 0.1.0 release is:
> > >
> > > [ ] -1: Broken. Do not release because...
> > > [ ] +1: Acceptable. Go ahead and release.
> >
> > Do we even need (a) a release and (b) a VOTE?
> >
> > I once heard Ross say that there was an ASP project (Subversion?) that
> > never had votes; they only had releases. That seemed to cut-down on the
> > red-tape required to get things out into the world. I can't find a
> > reference for that, now.
> >
> > Since this is a developer tool and not a runtime library or anything
> > like that, maybe we can just say "YMMV, this is available any time you
> > want it"?
> >
> > That said, I have no objections whatsoever with holding a vote. I am an
> > unsigned "0" on the vote itself; I have not even downloaded the source
> > let alone attempted to migrate a project using it.
> >
>
> I'm a +0 on this one.  Like Chris, I also did not even download nor tested
> that tool.
>
> Did we use that tool to migrate the Tomcat examples?  Were they all
> migrated successfully?
>

No. The examples were migrated manually, i.e. their source code was
migrated.
The tool migrates binary files (.war,.jar, .class). It is useful when your
application depends on third party libraries which still use javax.**

Martin


>
> Igal
>
>
>
> >
> > -chris
> >
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