Hi all, +1 to proceed as proposed by Jean-Louis.
Best Martin — https://twitter.com/mawiesne Am 08.02.2022 um 09:22 schrieb Thomas Andraschko <andraschko.tho...@gmail.com<mailto:andraschko.tho...@gmail.com>>: +1 to move on i would also like to get another 8.0.x release but i will send another mail soon :) Am Di., 8. Feb. 2022 um 08:07 Uhr schrieb Zowalla, Richard < richard.zowa...@hs-heilbronn.de<mailto:richard.zowa...@hs-heilbronn.de>>: Hi all, I am strongly +1 for moving forward with it, i.e. time to move on with master. There is definitley the need for some artifacts (arquillian, app composer), which are not covered by the byte-code approach and which are required to migrate (fully w/o byte code transformation) to the jakarta namespace :) Although - I think it is clear to everyone - the 8.x branch will (obviously) stay for a couple of years as it is the last javax namespace supporting release. Gruß Richard Am Dienstag, dem 08.02.2022 um 00:04 +0100 schrieb Jean-Louis Monteiro: Hi all, We have discussed it a couple of times here and there. I'd like to open a dedicated thread for it. EE 9 has been released and we have created a TomEE 9.x milestone to pass the TCK. The approach to do bytecode changes to support javax -> jakarta namespace changes proved to work but it's also been more complex than expected. We have a limited fork with limited features. We don't support nearly as much as we do in the 8.x branch. The goal was to decrease the maintenance cost for the community, but in reality I fear we are on the opposite path. I'd like to create a TomEE 8.x maintenance branch where we keep fixing stuff, upgrading libraries and do as many releases as possible and as long as we can to support javax namespace. I know it's the last compatible version so the topic is not when TomEE is going to be EOL. But if we do that, we could move master to TomEE 9 and start merging back all changes we did in the fork and finally create an EE 9 final release. EE 10 is around the corner, if we want to keep supporting EE and being certified, we need to avoid big jumps. What does the community think? -- Jean-Louis Monteiro http://twitter.com/jlouismonteiro http://www.tomitribe.com
