Well, it's not a major change at all and doesn't introduce any
bugs. It
is simply the addition of an almost-empty JSP, an addition to CSS
to by
default hide it, and one line to Header.jsp.
Adding a new JSP file *is* a major change, as it is a new feature.
2.6.x should be kept stable, and new features should go to the 2.8
branch.
I can do this and have been doing this for the past year. It's a pain,
and I'm absolutely certain that this is a very common use case,
perhaps
the most common.
If it is common, there will be more people requesting it. A good
idea might be to start a new enhancement request at issues.apache.org.
If it is a pain, it sounds like our extension mechanism is broken, or
you are using it wrong. I would like to go deeper into this before
we start panic-slapping patches to see what the root cause really is.
And yes, I can continue to make this custom modification myself as
I have
been.
You should *not* have to keep making a custom modification. That's
the point of the extension mechanism.
/Janne
