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[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for approval: Spec Committee Meeting Minutes October 9th, 2019

The minutes for the October 9th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our next call.

Spec Committee Agenda October 9th, 2019

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu, Michael DeNicola

Dan Bandera - IBM, Kevin Sutter, Alasdair Nottingham

Bill Shannon - Oracle, Ed Bratt, Dmitry Kornilov, Will Lyons

Mark Wareham - Payara - Steve Millidge

Scott Stark - Red Hat, Mark Little, Antoine Sabot-Durand

David Blevins - Tomitribe, Richard Monson-Haefel, Jean-Louis Monterio

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Alex Theedom - Participant Member

Werner Keil - Committer Member


Eclipse Foundation: Wayne Beaton, Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck, Mike Milinkovich


Past business / action items:

  • Deferred: Approval of minutes from the October 9th meeting.


Agenda

  • Specification Committee to nominate and elect a chair:

    • Paul Buck is serving as the interim non-voting chair. From the Jakarta EE Working Group charter: “The Committee elects a chair who reports to the Steering Committee. This chair is elected among the members of the Committee. They will serve from April 1 to March 31 of each calendar year, or until their successor is elected and qualified, or as otherwise provided for in this Charter.”

  •  Election for Specification Committee Chair 

    • New call for nominations followed by a Committee vote provided a candidate is nominated. Ballot to follow, result determined by simple majority.

Notes: i) Steering committee document here in these minutes any concerns with a Foundation employee as non-voting Spec Committee chair  ii) Nomination and voting deferred to October 16th call

  • Jakarta EE 8 Retrospective discussion - Your input needed! [Discussion]

    • Reference: Steering Committees retrospective document.

Notes: Retrospective document was discussed live and updated on the call. Scott agreed to review input and propose changes to the operations documents and checklists.

  • Post Jakarta EE 8 Restructuring. Provide your input to this document. [Discussion]

Note: Deferred to October 16th call.

  • Contributing and Jakartifying Specification Documents from the JCP:

    • Foundation to update the communication to include the list of the fulltext specification documents that are currently not ready to be released. See the document prepared by the Foundation for the details including a link to a specification spreadsheet that indicates which spec documents are ready to provide to the spec projects and which are not. 

    • The Foundation requires the Specification Committee to provide a documented set of steps to Jakartify the specification document which is to be made available to the spec projects. An initial draft of the steps is here.

Notes: Steps document was discussed and enhanced on the call.

  • Website area updates for Spec Committee. Input needed see the GitHub issue and provide input to the WebDev team.

Note: Rep from WebDev team to be invited to October 16th call to discuss live.

Notes: Tanja to send an email.

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