| [jakarta.ee-spec] Jakarta EE Spec Committee Approved Meeting Minutes - December 16th, 2020 |
Attendees (present in bold):
Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu
Dan Bandera - IBM - Kevin Sutter, Tom Watson (guest)
Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov
Andrew Pielage - Payara - Matt Gill
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
Scott (Congquan) Wang - Primeton - Enterprise Member
Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck (chair)
References: JESP, Spec Committee page including approved meeting minutes
Past business / action items:
Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the December 2nd meeting as drafted - Approved.
Agenda:
Ongoing tracking of individual specs and their progress through the JESP (including innovative updates), see spreadsheet.
Assigning a mentor - Draft text to send to the spec project leads (and the jakarta specifications discussion mailing list?) is here.
Action: Paul to send out to spec leads list and spec discussion list
Proposed deadline for Plan Reviews for potential inclusion in Jakarta EE 9.1 - January 31, 2021.
9.1 Platform Project theme is to keep it as simple as possible
Decision is to declare 01/31/21 as the deadline for individual specs to be in Plan Review to be considered for inclusion
Platform Spec for 9.1 to be in to Plan Review by end of January or early February
Actions: Kevin to send an email to the mailing list to establish the parameters for the release and then afterwards Ivar to blog
The EE4J PMC proposes that the Spec Committee appoints a sub-committee to author a “TCK Splitting Guide”.
The guide should at the least include guidelines regarding:
Documentation
Templates
Rules/restrictions
Those that are asking for TCK refactoring are encouraged to get involved
For reference see Scott M’s email to the Platform Project list [12/16/20]
Action: Draft an outline and send an email to the project lead mailing list to call for volunteers to help write the guide. [Scott Stark + Dmitry Kornilov]
Idea from Dan Bandera - Start an inventory of optional features and where implemented. Use to progress the discussion held on certifying optional features on November 4th.
Create a spreadsheet to record and send to spec projects
Explored further in December 16th call:
- Need to know what the optional features are so the union can be derived- See the table in the Platform Spec for reference
Action: Dan and Scott Stark to author a discussion paper to focus the discussion. Others to provide input
2021 Program Plan Spec Committee topic Follow-up - Plan initiatives to Simplify the Release Process
Notes from previous discussions are recorded here
Proposal: Review notes and pull out the top items for implementation in 2021
Jakarta EE 9 retrospective w/ input from the Spec Committee and projects
Proposal: Create a google doc to solicit input and host an open call in January
Note: First spec committee call in the new year is on Wednesday, January 13th
The following items was not covered and will be added to the agenda for next meeting
For next year’s review the member is good standing requirements for purposes of voting
Werner Keil: It’s not extremely urgent either, but have some of you noticed Github Discussions: https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/indriya/discussions is an example where I activated it for the RI of JSR 385. I think for some items it could fit better than the issue although the technical nature is very similar but there are types like question, idea or (Agile) “Show and Tell” that sound very appealing.