[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for approval: Jakarta EE Specificatio

[Paul Buck <paul.buck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the December 1st Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on December 15th. 

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - December 1st, 2021

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Kevin Sutter - IBM - Tom Watson, Emily Jiang

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage - Payara

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

Jun Qian - Primeton - Enterprise Member

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck (chair)

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the November 17th meeting as drafted - Approved.

Agenda:

• The chair, Paul Buck is unable to attend the meeting on December 1st, committee member Tom Watson is acting chair for the meeting

• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of individual specs progressing through the JESP

• Jakarta EE 10 Plan Review - Candidate specifications

• PRs https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pulls

• Project Board https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/projects/1

• Release Plan https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/jakartaee-platform/jakartaee10/JakartaEE10ReleasePlan

• Wiki https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/wiki/JakartaEE10

• Scott to get a template note for mentors to send.

• Scott sent a msg to spec lead list to ask teams to update the status column.

• It looks like we will slip one quarter due to the lack of release review PRs

• Need to make Feb for marketing.  

• Going thought is it will slip to 2Q

• There is a discussion about component spec release requirements based on dependencies in the platform dev list

• Need to look over the various meta-data for API JARs to see if they are compatible with requirements on CDI-4.0

• Tom, look into the OSGi metadata to make sure they are compatible with CDI-4.0

• Scott started updates to platform specs.

• May need to relax requirements from profiles. PR needs review and input https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/pull/433

• Next meeting is on Dec 15th

• Jakarta Commons - Plan to submit a proposal this week.  Not for EE 10.

• Proposed committers?  Feel free to request to be added.

• Separate proposal for data (future evolution) and MicroProfile data access.

• Where to propose, up to who steps up and leads.

• Prefer to do it in one place.