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[jakartaee-tck-dev] Branching and maintenance

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



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