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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the December 11^th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on January 8th, 2025.

We will also be approving the meeting minutes for the November 27^th call as we did not reach quorum for approval on the December 11^th call.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - December 11th, 2024

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

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 coordinators: Ed Burns, Jared Anderson

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the November 27th, 2024 meeting as drafted - quorum not reached

Agenda:

• 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.
• 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  
• Core Profile passed ballot
• Question about whether Core Profile TCK can be published to Maven Central
• Can we use Ed Bratt’s proposal?
• #55
• Link
• CI job link: https://ci.eclipse.org/jakartaee-tck/job/11/job/jakarta-core-profile-tck-maven-central/ 
• Jenkins CI job needs updating
• For the Platform project to do, not specification committee
• Web Profile to be shipped before the Platform specification
• Estimations about Platform TCK delivery still vague, a new suggestion to unblock things being investigated
• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 12 Release Plan [Ed Burns]
• The delay of Jakarta EE 11 TCK is not intending to block the component specifications from submitting their EE 12 proposals
• [11/27] 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]
• Issue for progress review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/nosql/issues/185
• 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]
• Issue for progress/plan review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/rpc/issues/3 

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.

• Logging creation review still pending
• Issue #55
• Check in on Ed’s document: link
• Check in on Ed’s PR: pending
• This process not being final doesn’t block the Platform team from publishing the TCKs to Maven Central (there’s no process explicitly prohibiting this)
• Issue #74 - still pending
• Issue #58 - no update
• This is not strictly with Emily, pull requests using the template just need to be made
• Issue #81
• Ivar/Tanja to check
• Review other 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
• Determine next call date - 8th January
• Paul Buck’s final call - thank you and all the best!

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Andrew Pielage
Senior Software Engineer

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