Mark 2.3 as EOL

[mnriem]

Proposal to update main README to reflect:

1. Faces 5.0 - under development
2. Faces 4.0 - stable release
3. Faces 3.0 - legacy release

And mark 2.3 as EOL

[pizzi80]

why not mark / remove also the 3.0 branch?
At the moment I don't see any reason to use 3.0

[melloware]

I guess so. MyFaces is still patching 2.3 though current.

[arjantijms]

At the moment I don't see any reason to use 3.0

Same here. 3.0 was part of the transitional Jakarta 9 release, which we dedicated as a release for tool vendors to prepare their products for the javax -> jakarta change. It was never really targeted to users. Various vendors (specifically the ones pushing for this transitional release) therefor skipped it and never had an official Jakarta 9 supported product out.

Users seem to have gotten the message, as there seems to be almost zero demand for Faces 3.0 / Faces 3.0 compatible products. Almost every request is either about Faces 4 or about Faces 2.3. Faces 3.0 barely exists in the minds of people. I might be proven wrong though, but that's my impression.

[melloware]

totally agree we had this same discussion about 3.0 over at MyFaces and there was some disagreement on support because it was an "official" release but I would also like to deprecate and drop support for 3.0 and make it 2.3, 4.0. 4.1 support.

[stolp]

I guess so. MyFaces is still patching 2.3 though current.

This is very much appreciated. My guess is that lot of users will be stuck on version 2.3 for quite a while.

[BalusC]

Sorry for late response, I was having vacation.

I fully agree to mark 2.3 EOL. But there are still two PRs pending for 2.3 and I'd like to see them merged rather than to throw away them.

• RowIndex/DataModel of UIData doesn't need to be reset when broadcasted row index and current row index are both -1; noticed same thing on UIRepeat as well so also improved over there #5287
• More robust impl of "retargeted ajax behavior" as previous impl failed in nested composites #5294

Can we at least release a Mojarra 2.3.21 as last one? Or should I nonetheless retarget these PRs to 3.0?

[melloware]

One last 2.3.21!