[jakartaee-tck-dev] Branching and maintenance

[Ed Bratt <ed.bratt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There has recently been some discussion in a recent PR about the 8.0 
branch in the TCK repository. I don't intend this to be commentary on 
that specific thread however ...

I just want to put in my vote that we really need a maintenance plan 
(branching, release maintenance, etc.) for 8.x. We will need the same 
for releases going forward. Our experience is that vendors continue to 
require/discover maintenance issues on these releases long after they 
are finalized. (Years, maybe even decades. That is life-times in the 
life of many projects.)

So, I would urge that a plan needs to be in place and it probably ought 
to be documented in a well known location so there isn't confusion about 
it and there is the best probability of long term continuity. Please 
consider the this so the prospective maintainers, years from now, will 
know what to do when they come across those issues and want to apply 
their fix.

Thanks,

-- Ed