+1 to keeping 3.2 on master until 3.2.1. I also agree with declaring end of support for 3.0.X (barring security vulnerabilities).
Good discussion! Thanks! Andy On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:14 PM Andriy Redko <drr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that keeping 3.2.x on master would make sense, at least till > 3.2.1. As Dennis pointed out, > with Java 9 just a few weeks away we may branch off 3.2 later and work on > 3.3 (master) to make it good > Jigsaw citizen. Supporting only 3.1.x and dropping 3.0.x sounds > reasonable, +1 to that. > > DK> Just wanted to start a quick discussion about 3.0.x. We’ve > historically done work on the master and then > DK> supported two fixes branches. With 3.2.0 being voted on now, I’m not > sure if we would branch the 3.2.x-fixes > DK> branch immediately or wait a bit (we have historically waited a bit). > Are there major changes forthcoming that > DK> would warrant targeting 3.3 sooner? If not, I think I’d like to > stick on master for at least one round of fixes just to stabilize the 3.2.0 > as users migrate. > > DK> In any case, we’ve now supported the 3.0.x series for 2 years, 4 > months. Would it make sense to announce that > DK> 3.0.15 will be the final scheduled release off that branch? Maybe > wait one more iteration? We haven’t been back > DK> porting much anyway. I grabbed the “central download stats” from > Nexus for the cxf-core module (pretty much any > DK> usage of CXF requires that) just to get an idea of what is used. The > top 10 are: > > DK> 3.0.3 18% > DK> 3.1.11 11% > DK> 3.1.6 10% > DK> 3.1.10 7% > DK> 3.1.12 6% > DK> 3.1.7 5% > DK> 3.1.8 5% > DK> 3.1.5 4% > DK> 3.1.4 4% > DK> 3.0.1 4% > > > DK> As you can see, the only 3.0.x versions in the top 10 are 3.0.1 and > 3.0.3. Since they are both ancient, I doubt > DK> anyone using them is planning on upgrading to new 3.0.x versions > anyway. The good news is that the 3 latest 3.1.x > DK> versions are in the top 5. Shows that the 3.1.x folks are keeping up > to date. The last two 3.0.x releases (.13 and .14) are numbers 24 and 23 > on the list. > > DK> Anway, curious as to peoples thoughts…. > > > >
