Re: [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Incremental vs Big Bang boms

[Scott Stark <sstark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What I am thinking I am starting to lean towards is a variation of the incremental model where if a specification is updated, the project does have to provide a compatibility library the allows Jakarta EE 8 based components of the specification to compile as a baseline for a compatibility step. Containers don’t necessarily need to implement compatibility using that, but they could. 

On May 29, 2019, at 1:12 PM, Kevin Sutter <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Whether there's a "compatibility bom" and what it's called would seem to
> depend on whether compatibility is a Jakarta EE spec of some sort or whether
> it's left completely to products to provide.  In any event, there would
> continue to be the Jakarta EE 8 bom.

If we are going to depend on Jakarta EE compatibility, then I think it has to
be defined here and not left up to each individual product.  Otherwise, we 
have just lost the compatibility argument.