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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - October 1st, 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 12 co-release coordinators: Jared Anderson, James Perkins

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the September 3rd, 2025 meeting as drafted - quorum not reached
• Approval is requested for the minutes from the September 17th, 2025 meeting as drafted - quorum not reached

Agenda:

• EE 11 Update [Ed Burns]
• Retrospective update
• [Carry over from July 9th]: 
• Retrospective was done on the platform call (issue link, document link)
• Need to review retro link to figure out what may need action by spec committee vs others
• Any remaining business on EE11
• Platform TCK challenges - 11.0.2 incoming soon
• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Dashboard
• M1 aiming for October 15th
• OSSRH problems ongoing
• Ballot to combine the Platform and Platform TCK projects completed successfully
• Query 1.0 being added to the Platform ballot started (2 days in).
• 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 [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests
• Open the remaining PRs and merge the PRs
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Ed Bratt]
• Check on progress of specifications
• Set as a goal for M2
• Issue #58 - TCK challenge templates [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests
• Set as a goal for M2
• 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.
• Issue #85 - Document Jenkins Maven Publication Jobs
• Set as a goal for M2
• Issue #86 - Simplify Compatibility Certification Requests
• No movement
• 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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