Jakarta EE Spec Committee - October 7th, 2020

[Paul Buck <paul.buck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the October 7th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on October 14th.  

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - October 7th, 2020

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Dan Bandera - IBM - Kevin Sutter

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov 

Andrew Pielage - Payara - Matt Gill

Scott Stark - Red Hat - Mark Little, Scott Marlow

David Blevins - Tomitribe - Jean-Louis Monteiro, Cesar Hernandez

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member - Martijn Verburg

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Scott (Congquan) Wang - Primeton - Enterprise Member 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck, Wayne Beaton

Reference: EFSP, JESP

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the September 30th meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Jakarta EE 9 Specification ballot tracking spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YTUpfdLZZrk2_UGwoX2w0seOCulseRO3sQJIjWxpDAa7g/edit#gid=0

See the Notes & Status field of the spreadsheet for updates.

Action: Spec committee chair to invite the specification projects that have not gone to ballot join the Spec Committee call on October 14th. 

Items below were not explicitly discussed and are to be considered for the agenda of the call scheduled for October 14th

• Follow up regarding Operations Guide update [Ivar]

• https://github.com/jakartaee/jakarta.ee/pull/908

• No comments so far. Approve by lazy consensus? 

• Format for Plan Review PR [Ivar]

• What information is needed?

• To be displayed under https://jakarta.ee/specifications/{spec}/{plannedversion}

• Enterprise Beans specification PR

• There is no standalone TCK for Enterprise Beans

• Stuck with Jenkins publishing API

• Opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=567522 last week and no feedback. Need help.

• Java Authentication

• PR reviewed and feedback provided 8 days ago

• Email sent to mailing list to ping but no response so far

• Attempt to help this one and upcoming specifications with https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck/pull/539

• Not sure it’s the right way to approach it

• Meanwhile, created a smaller and more focused PR https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck/pull/540

• Hopefully someone can merge and create new binaries into staging