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[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for approval: Spec Committee Meeting Minutes October 16th, 2019

The minutes for the October 16th 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 16th, 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, Chris Guindon


Past business / action items:

  • Minutes from the October 2nd meeting were approved.

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


Agenda

  • Working discussion with Foundation WebDev team on website updates for the Spec Committee. See this GitHub issue for background and to provide input.

  • Notes: 4 options were discussed: … get back together in on this topic in 2 weeks. 

    • Options:

      1. Spec committee submits a PR to the Jakarta.ee website with files in Hugo markdown format [recommendation]

      2. Convert .adoc files to Hugo markdown like we do today with the spec pages

      3. Spec committee generate HTML files from .adoc files. Webdev will copy the files as-is and post to the Jakarta.ee website

      4. Publish .adoc to the web via Hugo

    • Action item for the Specification Committee:

      1. Create a docs folder in the specification-committee repo for all files that are to be published on the website. For example, README.md, LICENSE and jakartaee-spec-committee.pub would stay in the root of the repository.

      2. Standardize on the file format by choosing between .adoc and Hugo markdown for publishing content to the website.


  • 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.

Note: Deferred to October 29th call.


  • Jakarta EE 8 Retrospective follow-up - Update from Scott on changes to the operations guides, checklists and process.

    • The current status of the operations guide updated and items for discussion is capture in this PR: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee/pull/18

      • This consists of TODO items and discussion items that will need to be incorporated in update operations and TCK guides

    • Reference: Steering Committees retrospective document.

    • Provide summary to Steering Committee


Notes: Question was raised if Scott was planning to update the operations document as well as adding list of TODO items?


  • 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 be provided to the spec projects and which are not. 

    • The Specification Committee has provided a documented set of steps to Jakartify the specification document which is to be made available to the spec projects.

    • Action: Specification Committee to decide to release spec documents that are ready to go.


Notes: The Spec Committee unanimously approved the release of the following specification documents to the spec projects:

    • Jakarta Authentication
    • Jakarta Authorization
    • Jakarta JSON Binding
    • Jakarta Mail
    • Jakarta Managed Beans
    • Jakarta RESTful Web Services
    • Jakarta Security
    • Jakarta Server Faces
    • Jakarta WebSocket
    • Jakarta Activation
    • Jakarta Annotations

  • Listing compatible implementations on individual specification pages - Discussion happening on the Specification Committee list.

    • See email thread on this topic for proposal. Operations guide to be updated accordingly.


Notes: It was agreed that the proposal documented in the email thread represented to consensus view of the Spec Committee


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


  • Listing versions of compatible products on the Foundation’s Compatible Products page


Notes: Kevin to prepare a proposal for the Committee. Paul to provide input.


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