This seems like a good idea, but the current vote is for 3 sets of artifacts and if it passes would we be obligated to release all to the mirror system? Is it too late to have independent votes for the 3 sets?
David Jencks > On May 3, 2021, at 1:30 PM, David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote: > > Launching off a discuss thread so we can track issues and discuss without > filling up the vote thread. > > Sounds like there are regressions on the 8.0.7. What I'd recommend is we > just don't put 8.0.7 on the mirror system or website. We leave the mirrors > and website with 8.0.6 until there are better 8.0.x binaries available and > just put up the 9.x binaries. > > Tomcat does this fairly often if there's a bad build of one of the branches. > If you look here there are 36 releases of 9.x, but the highest version number > is 9.0.45, so a decent percentage were never published: > > - http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/ > > I think that's probably one of the reasons they can crank out so many > releases so consistently despite maintaining 3 branches. > > Thoughts? > > > -David >
