[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Incremental vs Big Bang thought experiment

[Scott Stark <sstark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I’m going through a little exercise to help clarify where an incremental vs Big Bang approach might differ in terms of compatibility requirements as well as general effort. The context of the experiment is to update the enterprise security api to factor out the servlet specific and jsr-196 apis into a new package so that the HttpAuthenticationMechanism

Interface  or a variation of it could be used without those dependencies.

First question that comes to mind, under the incremental approach, would a change to the spec that only affects a subset of the javax.security.enterprise.* packages leave some packages under javax.security.enterprise.* and the changed classes under jakarta.security.enterprise.*, or when a spec is updated would all associated package be moved over to jakarta.*?