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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the March 19th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on April 2nd.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - March 19th, 2025

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

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the February 19th, 2025 meeting as drafted - Approved
• Approval is requested for the minutes from the March 5th, 2025 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 11 Release Plan [Jared Anderson]
• EE 11 - Prioritized backlog · Jakarta EE11 TCK Release (github.com) and Jakarta EE11 TCK Release board  
• Web Profile release review PR created: https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/802 
• Ballot (hopefully) by the end of the week
• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 12 Release Plan [Jared Anderson]
• Project board: https://github.com/orgs/jakartaee/projects/17/views/1 
• Faces 5.0 and Concurrency 3.2 should be ready soon
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Check on Release, Creation, and Progress Reviews for:
• Jakarta NoSQL 
• 1.0 ballot passed 
• Jakarta Config 
• Pending steering committee discussion
• Jakarta RPC 
• Issue for progress/plan review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/rpc/issues/3 
• Jakarta Logging
• Carry over from Feb 19th call:
• Christian has been asked to create the Creation Review pull request
• Jakarta Data 1.1
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/795 
• Jakarta Query
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/issues/777
• https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/emo-team/emo/-/issues/907 
• Community review 2-week window completed, pending creation review
• Jakarta HTTP
• Proposal draft next week to gather feedback before bringing it forward
• Issue #55
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s document: link
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s PR: pending
• Ed Bratt not present, PR not found
• Issue #83 - Clean up and clarify how to list TCK service releases on spec pages
• Carry over from Feb 19th call:
• Action: Ivar to update the template: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee/blob/master/spec_page_template.md 
• Ivar not present, template not yet updated
• Check on progress of pull requests
• No noticeable progress, mentors reminded to create the pull requests and then update the appropriate checkboxes in the issue
• Issue #74
• Email: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec.committee/msg03564.html 
• Carry over from Feb 19th call:
• An issue will be created to track this
• Should we instead track it in the existing issue in a similar manner to #83?
• Issue #58
• Check on progress of pull requests
• No noticeable progress, mentors reminded to create the pull requests and then update the appropriate checkboxes in the issue
• Issue #81
• Ivar’s pull request for review: https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/792 
• Is this ready to be merged? Kenji reviewed in January
• Ivar not present
• Issue #82
• Ed Bratt not present
• Review other open issues:
• Determine which issues to label as “enhancement” and add to our board
• Close issues which are no longer relevant or have been dealt with

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