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Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache Tomcat 7.0.4
From: David Jencks <david_jencks@yahoo.com>
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:52:46 -0700
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On Oct 20, 2010, at 5:03 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:

> On 20/10/2010 06:39, Jess Holle wrote:
>> On 10/20/2010 5:45 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>> On 19/10/2010 08:56, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>>> Ping. Just a gentle reminder that there are ~2 days left for this =
vote.
>>>> So far we have 1 vote for beta and no other votes.
>>> Sorry - it should have said ~1 day above. I've been traveling and =
got my
>>> dates mixed up. I'll leave the vote open for another 24 hours or so.
>>>=20
>>> Currently there are 4 votes for beta (2*PMC, 1*committer, =
1*contributor)
>>> so we need at least 1 more PMC vote in order to proceed with this
>>> release.
>> As someone trying to figure out when to take the plunge into Tomcat =
7,
>> but needing something that is definitely "stable", is there any sort =
of
>> list as to what hurdles remain to be cleared before considering =
Tomcat 7
>> is considered "stable"?
>=20
> My own view is that to be considered stable, Tomcat 7 needs to meet =
the
> following criteria:
> 1. Implement all aspects of Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2
> 2. Pass all unit tests with all three HTTP connectors
> 4. Pass all relevant TCKs with the security manager enabled
>   - Servlet TCK with all three HTTP connectors and both AJP connectors
>   - JSP TCK with any connector
>   - EL TCK (doesn't use web requests)
> 4. Have no 'significant' open bugs
> 5. Have reasonable adoption
> 6. Have a couple of releases with no 'serious' bugs emerging
>=20
> In term of progress:
> 1. Done (to the best of my knowledge).

I don't think tomcat is processing security constraints added through =
ServletRegistration.  I added some hooks in one of my patches so the =
info got to an appropriate class but only implemented the actual =
processing in geronimo.
see https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D50015

thanks
david jencks

> 2. It does.
> 3. It does (as have all 7.0.x releases).
> 4. There is currently 1 (yes one!) open bug without a patch across
> 5.5.x, 6.0.x and 7.0.x so I think we can call this one done.
> 5. Based on some analysis of download requests and the number and
> quality of bug reports I am happy that there is reasonable adoption at
> this stage.
> 6. I see this as the only thing between 7.0.x and stability.
>=20
> Serious is subjective but the sort of things I would include are:
> - anything that requires a major refactoring to fix
> - anything that breaks typical use cases
>=20
> As an example, I would consider another bug 49884 serious due to both
> the async issues it caused and the scale of the refactoring required =
to
> fix. I wouldn't consider another 50072 serious mainly because that =
issue
> has been present in the 6.0.x code base and hasn't been a problem (at
> least not one folks have reported).
>=20
> So in summary, if 7.0.4 and 7.0.5 go well, things are looking good for
> 7.0.6.
>=20
> HTH,
>=20
> Mark
>=20
>=20
>=20
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