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Hi,

Interesting discussion. I believe, the first time I spoke to Adam Bien about Jakarta EE (the name wasn't defined then) going to Eclipse, I think he said more or less the same thing ;-)

I have been an Eclipse committer for almost as long as Eclipse Foundation exists and was an initial committer to projects like Babel laying the foundation to i18n even for Klingon (who knows, maybe the Space Force might find that useful some day? ;-D) 
I was also a committer to the ancestor of WTP/JEE Tooling named Sysdeo Tomcat Launcher, so I have always been involved with both of them and the first talk I gave at EclipseWorld (where I also met Wayne or Mike for the first time in person) was about combining Eclipse and Apache technologies including Maven or Tomcat. 

We had a discussion about the future of Apache Tamaya on the internal dev list and as I stated there, Apache Foundation simply lost out in several key areas especially the Cloud, Microservices, Mobile, Embedded or IoT. 
The list of project categories  https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category  shows this quite well. Sorry, but naming Camel both under "Cloud" and "IoT" doesn't make it either of them as its primary objective, "Integration" meets the real purpose, same for CouchDB, so that makes 1 or 2 IoT projects and roughly half a dozen that really may be called "Cloud Related" or "Cloud Native". 

Hence I questioned the ability of Tamaya to survive or graduate there and suggested possible alternatives at either Eclipse or CNCF.

Big Data is clearly a success story at Apache, many library projects and the general purpose "network" layer but if you look e.g. at Susan Fowler's Four Layers of Microservice Architecture  https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/12/18/the-four-layers-of-microservice-architecture (maybe a bit old but simple enough) Apache Foundation covers mainly Layer 2 while having lost 3 and 4 to other communities.

Regards, 

Werner





On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 10:13 PM John Clingan <jclingan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice write-up, Wayne. Thanks for the explanation.

On Jan 28, 2020, at 12:59 PM, Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The important difference here is that we're talking about specification work. The intellectual property flows are fundamentally different for specification development than they are for software development. 

Due to these differences in intellectual property flows, we need to have extra legal documentation in place for specification project committers in the form of the Working Group Participation Agreement. By signing that agreement, the committer's employer becomes a participant in the working group and subject to the terms of the agreement (which includes participation fees).

That a person cannot become a committer on a specification project unless their employer joins the working group is an obvious hole in our process that we identified with help from the Jakarta EE Working Group's Specification Committee. We're working on filing this hole. Since this is legal documentation, it takes a little time. We're close to ready to roll this out.

FWIW, Romain's committer status has been suspended, not revoked, while we sort this out. What happened... we created the projects that Romain is a committer on before we had a specification process. When we switched those projects into specification process as defined by the newly created specification process, the fact that we didn't have the necessary paperwork in place to support Romain's involvement with specification work required that we suspend his account while it was sorted out. The EMO Records team has communicated this with Romain.

We've come quite a long way from having no specification process 18 months ago to today. As we identify problems, we address them. The patience, understanding, and participation of the community as we push forward with specification work at the Eclipse Foundation is appreciated.

Wayne

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 3:04 PM Kevin Sutter <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Romain is entitled to his opinion, but I don't agree with it.

I belong to and have participated in both foundations -- Eclipse and Apache.  Yes, they are different.  They both have quirks.  But, I do not agree with posting something like this and asking for a discussion.  At least not on the Jakarta EE Community forum.  We should focus on Jakarta EE issues and questions, and not opinions about the Eclipse Foundation.  My two cents worth...

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From:        Amelia Eiras <aeiras@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:        Jakarta EE Community <jakarta.ee-community@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:        01/28/2020 13:31
Subject:        [EXTERNAL] [jakarta.ee-community] [Open Feedback] to this Community via Twitter
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Hello from Las Vegas Jakartees, 

with reference to this Tweet 

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If Romain's statements are true,  why are they true?

Amelia Eiras 
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