[jakarta.ee-spec] Jakarta EE Spec Committee Approved Meeting Minutes - M

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - May 14th, 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 April 30th, 2025 meeting as drafted - approved

Agenda:

• 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  
• Tentative schedule thoughts
• May 21 TCK complete
• June 5 CCR created and mentor review started
• June 9 start ballot (complete 7 to 14 days)
• Three issues blocking GlassFish being used for CCR
• Should be easy to fix
• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 12 Release Plan [Jared Anderson]
• Project board: https://github.com/orgs/jakartaee/projects/17/views/1 
• Only waiting on Activation now - all other ballots complete or in progress
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format [Ed Bratt]
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s PR: pending
• Issue #83 - Clean up and clarify how to list TCK service releases on spec pages
• Check on progress of pull requests
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance
• Check on progress of specifications
• Spec Committee still required to send emails out
• Platform project also encouraging responses
• What timeframe should we give for them to choose? May 16th is now very close and most specifications have been emailed.
• In the case of lazy acceptance, how do we add the necessary labels? 
• Committer access required
• How do we prevent bad actors?
• Issue #58 - TCK challenge templates [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests
• Issue #82 - Consistent approach for TCK challenge exclusions [Ed Bratt]
• Carry over from February 19th: TCK Process should be updated with something akin to Scott Starks suggestion.
• 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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Andrew Pielage
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