[sakai2-tcc] VOTE: Architectural / Library Changes for 2.9: Tomcat 7 & JSF 1.2

[Matthew Jones]

+1

With the Tomcat EOL coming next year, we have to have this working by
default with Tomcat 7.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Seth Theriault <slt at columbia.edu> wrote:

>
> +1.
>
> Beth Kirschner wrote:
>
> > Having not received any further discussion, I'd like to open this issue
> for a vote, with the voting OPEN until Friday, August 19th at 23:59 UTC.
> >
> > As a reminder, this is a public, on-list vote with a "+1" signifying
> approval. Per our governance documents, a -1 vote must be accompanied by a
> detailed explanation. A single -1 vote based on a material objection will
> block action. However, -1 blocking votes can be overridden by a 2/3 majority
> roll call vote of active TCC members.
> >
> > - Beth
> >
> > On Aug 10, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Berg, Alan wrote:
> >
> >> I am in favour of moving to Tomcat 7 & JSF 1.2 for the same reason. We
> need to keep Sakai's lifecycle in synch with where the majority of bug fixes
> are taking place in the third parties libraries etc. We do not want to
> incrementally fall too far behind.
> >>
> >>
> >> Alan Berg
> >>
> >> Group Education and Research Services
> >> Central Computer Services
> >> University of Amsterdam
> >> From: sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> sakai2-tcc-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Matthew Jones [
> jonespm at umich.edu]
> >> Sent: 10 August 2011 18:07
> >> To: Beth Kirschner
> >> Cc: sakai2-tcc Committee
> >> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] DISCUSS: Architectural / Library Changes for
> 2.9: Tomcat 7 & JSF 1.2
> >>
> >> Our CTools operations notified us to an announcement made on the apache
> lists today that Tomcat 5.5 end of life is September 30, 2012. [1] I think
> this means that there should be no question that Sakai 2.9 needs to be
> running on Tomcat 7, as there will be no more bug fixes and the 5.5 releases
> will be more difficult to find.
> >>
> >> This would also mean a period of time where Sakai 2.8 is running on an
> unsupported tomcat before it we get to 2.10 and 2.8 is unsupported.
> >>
> >> [1]
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/tomcat-announce/201108.mbox/%3C4E4272EA.5010705@apache.org%3E
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Since the upgrade to JSF 1.2 version is a dependency on the upgrade of
> >> Tomcat 7, I've (re)bundled these two requests together.
> >>
> >> - Beth
> >>
> >> On Aug 9, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Beth Kirschner wrote:
> >>
> >>> At the LA Project Coordination Meetings the following
> >>> architectural / library changes were proposed for the 2.9 release:
> >>> Upgrade to Tomcat 7 (https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/
> >>> SAK-18760). I'd like to put it to a vote next week, but please share
> >>> any concerns or questions now.  I've pasted previous comments below.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> - Beth
> >>>
> >>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>>
> >>>> From: Aaron Zeckoski <aaronz at vt.edu>
> >>>> Date: July 31, 2011 2:14:23 PM GMT-04:00
> >>>> To: "May, Megan Marie" <mmmay at indiana.edu>
> >>>> Cc: sakai2-tcc Committee <sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] VOTE: Architectural / Library Changes for
> >>>> 2.9
> >>>>
> >>>> I would actually prefer if we can split this up because I think the
> >>>> tomcat/jsf stuff may be a bridge too far but the DB2 removal is
> >>>> actually low hanging.
> >>>>
> >>>> If there are resources then I am going to register a vote of 0. I am
> >>>> concerned about the opportunity cost here (low gains for high costs
> >>>> IMO).
> >>>>
> >>>> 0
> >>>> -AZ
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>>
> >>>> From: csev <csev at umich.edu>
> >>>> Date: July 31, 2011 10:34:29 PM GMT-04:00
> >>>> To: sakai2-tcc Committee <sakai2-tcc at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [sakai2-tcc] VOTE:  Architectural / Library Changes
> >>>> for 2.9
> >>>>
> >>>> I am +1 on this with the caveat that we can 't let TC7 drag on too
> >>>> long.    We don't want to finally get a around to this in December
> >>>> and then flip at the last minute.   We need as much developer test
> >>>> time and nightly server/QA server time as we can get on these things.
> >>>>
> >>>> So I am +1 as long as it does not drag on too long - In October I
> >>>> will be -1.
> >>>>
> >>>> /Chuck
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jul 31, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> +1
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (FYI, Chuck H has been looking at the last remaining issue with
> >>>>> the upgrade to TC7 - it's in WebDAV).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> cheers.
> >>>>> Steve
> >>>
> >>
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