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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - February 18th, 2026

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu - Takahiro Nagao

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage (chair)  - Payara

David Blevins - Tomitribe - Jean-Louis Monteiro, Cesar Hernandez

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Arjan Tijms - Omnifish OU - Elected Participant Member Representative 

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 February 4th, 2026 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Dashboard
• Shared the timeline at the recent Jakarta EE steering committee. Still trying to get EE 12 released in 2026.
• Working on the M3 - pulling in the component specs that have done Milestone releases.
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Carry over from previous calls:
• Progress reviews for Jakarta Config and RPC overdue.
• Jakarta Config approaching two years overdue
• Discuss any movement from the Jakarta Futures meeting
• Wait for the actions from the talk with MicroProfile Config
• Jakarta RPC approaching three years overdue
• Oracle to be poked before contacting the EMO
• Need to check whether anyone has interest in helping out in this project.
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format [Ed Bratt]
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s PR: pending
• Need to double check with the MicroProfile community regarding the usage. Emily and Ed to bring this for further discussion at the next MicroProfile Technical call.
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Ed Bratt]
• Check on progress of specifications - set as a goal for M2
• Ed to provide an update in the next call
• Issue #58 - TCK challenge templates [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests - set as a goal for M2
• Ed merged 2 open PRs. Only one outstanding PR for the active Jakarta EE specs remains. It's nearly there.
• 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.
• Ed to investigate a bit more.
• Issue #85 - Document Jenkins Maven Publication Jobs [Emily Jiang]
• Specifications having wiki pages (or equivalent documentation) goal for M2
• Carry over from previous call: Needs to be brought up in the Platform call and/or poke projects leads via email
• Emily to send an email to the spec leads mailing list.
• New Jakarta EE release process with the new Eclipse Foundation Staging repo
• CI Jobs need to be updated to use the new staging repo.
• Review checklist to be updated to reflect the new process.
• Issue #86 - Simplify Compatibility Certification Requests [Ivar Grimstad]
• Carry over from previous call
• Example to be created
• Ivar to reach out to understand the complaints
• Ivar to work with Ondro and Arjan for further feedback to see whether it is worthwhile for further simplification.
• Issue #83 Follow-up - Clean Up And Clarify How To List TCK Service Releases On Specification Pages
• Carry over from previous call: An issue to be created for further discussion [Ivar]
• Discussions ongoing on how to track changes between TCK service release versions
• There’s already a changelog file they can update, it’s just not mentioned on the PR template file
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/blob/master/service_release_pr_template.md vs. https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/service_release_pr_template.md 
• It needs to be clear which changes are for the API service releases vs. the TCK service releases
• Changelogs are already versioned by the major/minor specification version e.g. https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/blob/master/jsonp/2.1/changelog.md 
• We could have headings for API and TCK which the releases would be listed under (most recent release at the top).
• Discuss any further amendments and actions
• We discussed today's call and understand the issue that it is difficult to work out the change logs for the service releases (see here). Needs to revisit this at the next call.
• Committee members
• Carry over from previous call:
• Please confirm committee members participants and for the strategics alternates as well, as documented on https://jakarta.ee/committees/specification/
• Please make Pull Requests to https://github.com/jakartaee/jakarta.ee/ 
• Suggestion: Add committee members photos on the above page; please confirm you are all in agreement with the suggestion
• Individuals can opt out
• Use the pictures already added to Eclipse accounts
• 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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