The saga goes on...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 22:17
>
> Now, he wants to go against what everyone voted for by continuing on with
> the development of Tomcat 3.x indefinitely. I'm going to call him on that
> because I don't see that as being right. I also don't see a problem with
> questioning the fact that he has completely ignored what we have voted on
> (to the point where he didn't even vote himself!). I don't understand how
> you all can accept Costin's lone wolf mentality when this is supposed to
> really be a community effort.
Many people feel that 3.3 is the safest bet for the next year. Some of us
want to keep real world production sites running with real world
constraints. Those of us can postpone using the beautiful new features of
Catalina but still need something a bit better than 3.2.
> My question that I'm going to bring up at the PMC meeting is:
>
> Where does it stop? If we release 3.3 and there are bugs in it, do we then
> release 3.3.1...3.3.2...3.3.3...3.4...etc...or do we call it quits on that
> tree and focus on 4.0?
Sam and others already stated that 3.3 is easier to maintain. They did take
a look at the code.
You don't believe them?
> Costin has already stated that he is going to disappear. I have
> yet to see a
> real solid answer on *when* he is going to disappear, but that probably
> primarily depends on whether or not there will be a 3.3 release from the
> Jakarta Project (as decided by the PMC).
He also did most of the commits in 3.2. At least, even if he disappears, he
is leaving behind something easier to maintain.
> If he decides to disappear after 3.3 is released (which is what he has
> currently stated he will do), then I would be very against making a 3.3
> release within the Jakarta project as the primary developer is
> not going to
> be around to support it. I would much rather see the 3.3 release happen in
> the forum that he is going to be support it under as that will be
> better for
> the community.
>
> Heck, today, anyone could go to sourceforge and do their own
> release of the
> software and call it FooBar 3.3. Same exact code. What is the real
> difference?
The difference is that several valid committers and users might go too. And
those are potential future committers/users that would evolve to Tomcat 4
in one year or less.
Have fun,
Paulo Gaspar
P.S.: It is great to see how your manage your heavy schedule with such
skill that you find time to keep all this fight going on.
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