[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] TCK archive format? (Consider allowing JAR o

[Ed Bratt <ed.bratt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

As we move the TCK responsibilities to component projects and, as we 
continue migrating away from the legacy TCK build tools, to MVN or other 
build tooling, I wonder if we should hold on to the requirement that we 
only accept .zip file bundles for normative TCK submissions.

Would the committee be interested in relaxing the formal requirements to 
allow either <name>.zip OR <name>.jar? If we did this, projects would 
not need to create multiple bundles and we could start to use Maven 
Central or other types of distribution mechanisms more directly.

I believe all other requirements (SHA Sums, contents, etc.) can be 
maintained just as directly with either file format.

Comments?

I don't know that we could adopt this before the close of the year, but 
... perhaps this is simple enough to take up without extensive discussion.

Thanks,

-- Ed