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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - July 8th, 2026

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu - Takahiro Nagao

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

Dmitry Kornilov - Oracle, Robert Patrick

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

Ivar was elected to chair this call in Andrews absence.

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the May 27th, 2026 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Dashboard
• Platform Minutes
• James is trying to get an overview of active committers on the Jakarta RESTful Web Services project. Currently, the project process blocks progress due to inactive committers.
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Check on progress of Termination Review for Jakarta Config
• Two-week lazy consensus pre-termination review period started, ending 27th of May
• Progress review requested
• Ongoing discussions. No need for any termination at this point.
• Check on progress of Termination Review for Jakarta RPC
• Two-week lazy consensus pre-termination review period started, ending 27th of May
• Andrew to send termination request
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Andrew Pielage]
• Check in on progress of pull requests
• No progress with this
• Issue #85 - Document Jenkins Maven Publication Jobs [Emily Jiang]
• 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.
• Check in on progress
• Emily sends an email to spec lead mailing list. Todo: add a checklist item to the spec review checklist
• Issue #86 - Simplify Compatibility Certification Requests [Ivar Grimstad]
• Carry over from previous call: when the CCR for GlassFish 8 comes in Arjan/Ondrej will come with proposals - if no proposals we shall close the issue
• Check in on CCR/proposals
• Issue closed. Reopen if someone comes back with concrete suggestions.
• Issue #83 Follow-up - Clean Up And Clarify How To List TCK Service Releases On Specification Pages [Andrew Pielage]
• Carry over from previous call: We should draft an example for us to discuss and iterate on, taking into account the easiest way for us to then update all of the changelog files
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/902 
• Discuss any further amendments and actions
• The PR looks good, but the template linked is missing
• Sharing Maven Namespaces [Andrew Pielage]
• From previous call: There is some support for defining rules. We provided a statement to follow the existing convention for now.
• Check in on progress and discuss
• No further actions needed for this at this point
• Promoting TCKs is a collective effort [Ivar Grimstad]
• Carry over from previous call
• Probably worth doing a refresher course when there are more members present
• Can we also document them in our GitHub repo? https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee 
• Tools repository where the scripts exist: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-tools/tree/master/promotion 
• Timeboxed demonstration when we have time and enough members present
• Todo (ivar): Add a link to the CI instance and job with a couple of bullet points explaining it
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format
• Check for any feedback
• On hold for now. Waiting for concrete ask from MicroProfile
• 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
• JakartaOne Livestream
• https://jakartaone.jakarta.ee/jakartaone-livestream-2026/
• Date: December 1st
• CfP is open
• Vendor talks