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Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] TCK Projects vs Spec Projects

That meets the spirit of TDD ;-)

 

From: Bill Shannon
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2018 18:43
To: Jakarta specification committee; Mike Milinkovich
Subject: Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] TCK Projects vs Spec Projects

 

Mike Milinkovich wrote on 9/6/18 4:35 AM:

> On 2018-09-05 6:17 PM, Bill Shannon wrote:

>> In a previous discussion, perhaps in the Steering Committee,

>> I believe we came to the conclusion that the TCK needed to be

>> in a separate project from the spec.  I think this was due to

>> some IP or licensing issue, perhaps because Spec Projects would

>> operate under different IP rules that we didn't want to apply to

>> code projects such as the TCK.

>> 

>> Does anyone remember the exact rationale for this required

>> separation between TCK Projects and Spec Projects?

>

> Bill,

>

> Wayne and I discussed this very topic yesterday.

>

> Given that the TCK is a 1:1 with the Specification and the API, and that all

> three artifacts need to be released at the same time, we're thinking that they

> should all be managed as one project.

>

> Our single reservation is that AIUI the people who work on the TCK and the

> people who work on the spec document are often different. Is that actually

> correct? We typically have a single committer list for everyone involved in all

> aspects of a single project. If we need to manage separate lists of committers

> between the spec doc/API/TCK that may drive us towards a different solution.

>

> Thoughts? Comments?

 

Historically, the people working on the TCKs at Sun/Oracle have mostly not been

involved in the spec development.

 

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