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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the October 30th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on November 13th, 2024.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - October 30th, 2024

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson - Jared Anderson

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage (chair)  - Payara - Petr Aubrecht

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

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member -  Abraham Marin-Perez

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Jun Qian - Primeton Information Technologies - Enterprise Member

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

Guest - Jakarta EE 11 co-release coordinator: Ed Burns

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the October 16th, 2024 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• [10/16] Informational - Call for interest and discussion on the Jakarta Logging project proposal from Christian Grobmeier posted to jakarta.ee-spec is here also see the email from the EMO posted to  jakarta.ee-spec.committee
• Community review period concluded October 22nd, ready for Creation Review
• Call for and assign a mentor if so
• Ivar put himself forward as mentor
• Tracking issue
• Some concerns on the specification - do we discuss before or after the creation review?
• The process would be that we simply start the ballot based on the project proposal as it stands
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Check in on EE 11 Release Review ballots, see the spreadsheet for updates and notes.
• Platform + Web & Core Profiles remain
• Two CCRs in for Core Profile
• Two blocker issues present for Web Profile and Platform
• No blocker issues for Core Profile
• Ballots will not be started by Nov 18th for JakartaOne
• If Platform TCK Project does not have the following blockers resolved by 2024-11-06:
• 25190
• 1624
• The ability to hit any goal in the preceding bullet point is jeopardized.
• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 11 Release Plan [Ed Burns]
• EE 11 - Prioritized backlog · Jakarta EE11 TCK Release (github.com) and Jakarta EE11 TCK Release board  
• Steering Committee update: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec.committee/msg03540.html 
• EE 12 - An initial draft of the EE 12 milestones is here
• Mailing list discussion here
• As the Platform Project begins the Jakarta EE 12 development cycle, they have requested (on jakarta.ee-spec.committee) for Progress Reviews for:
• Jakarta NoSQL 
• https://jakarta.ee/specifications/nosql/
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02795.html [Progress Review, 10.2022]
• Pending
• Jakarta Config 
• https://jakarta.ee/specifications/config/
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02838.html [Plan Review, 01.2023]
• Issue for progress review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/config/issues/277 
• Jakarta RPC 
• https://jakarta.ee/specifications/rpc/
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02129.html [Creation Review, 01.2022]
• Pending

[10/16] The mentors for these projects are requested to let these projects know that they are required to provide input for a Progress Review and in particular to confirm (or revise) their scope and delivery timeline.

• Check that mentors are following up with the spec projects
• [10/16] Issue #55 was discussed, a proposal was presented by Ed Bratt for consideration
• Check in on Ed’s document: link
• Check with EMO for any conflicts with other processes
• Is it OK for projects to license TCKs as outlined in the document?
• Ed Bratt to ask Wayne Beaton
• Would we look at publishing service releases for EE10 or just have this as the process going forward?
• Only apply moving forward
• The existing EE10 zips could be pushed to Maven Central without recreating them to follow this process if it helps MicroProfile
• Would we like to create a pom template for how a vendor can run the TCK?
• Tackle as a separate issue, possibly after the release of EE11
• We will discuss and potentially vote next call.
• Jakarta EE 11 release retrospective ongoing [All]  
• Review the open issues:
• Determine which issues to label as “enhancement” and add to our board
• Close issues which can are no longer relevant or have been dealt with
• Feel free to open new issues here which we will get to after the release is done. Add the “enhancement” label.

Thanks,

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Andrew Pielage
Senior Software Engineer

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