The Servlet EG is starting to discuss changes to the Servlet API for 3.1. It would be useful if the option existed to implement some of these changes in Tomcat trunk. The benefits of this are: - we can see how feasible the API changes are to implement - users can try out the new APIs (assuming we do a Tomcat 8 alpha release)
Therefore, after the next Tomcat 7 release, I would like to do the following: - Copy tomcat/trunk to tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk - Start making Servlet API changes to tomcat/trunk Assuming that there are no objections to that plan, that leads to a couple of other questions. 1. Should tomcat/tc7.0.x/trunk be RTC or CTR? 2. With tomcat/trunk becoming the basis for Tomcat 8, I would like to see earlier and more frequent alpha/beta releases than we had for Tomcat 7. That would increase the effective number of versions we are supporting. With that in mind, should we announce end of support for 5.5.x with the last release expected in ~12 months time? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
